Case Study 1
A 12-week day-care programme was completed with young people on ISSP in Newham, which was commissioned by the Community Safety Unit and YOT. We started with fifteen young people and ended with twelve of the original number; one dropped out and another two received custodial sentences for crimes committed prior to beginning the programme. Eight of the young people were either back at school, college or in employment by the end of the process, and four went on to receive training as social researchers, completing paid work. 80% of the young people were from BME communities.

Case Study 2
In-volve was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police and Merton Local Authority to target and make positive contact with identified groups of young people carrying out hate crime in specific areas, many of whom had been recruited by the BNP. The young people were targeted using intelligence provided by the Police and other community groups, and were not at school, in employment or further education. There was a core group of nine young people, one of whom was recognised as being the leader of the most notorious and violent gang in the area. At the end of the process six of the young people targeted had completed the WHO? I.D. programme, and all had either gone back into education or moved back to the family home. All had stopped perpetrating hate crime.

Case Study 3
A 26-week RAW programme, funded by the Lambeth Community Safety Partnership, worked with a core group of twelve young people at risk, who attended regularly and fully engaged in the process of changing their self concept and of controlling the communication of that concept to their outside world. All twelve gained accreditation as social researchers and completed paid research in their communities. All of the young people are either back at school or in training or employment, and all continue their relationship with In-volve. Six of the young people have gone on to work as apprentices on subsequent RAW projects in Lambeth.