Inspiring Futures evaluation – policy and funding summary

Summary

Youth Futures Foundation and BBC Children in Need funded Cordis Bright to independently evaluate the Inspiring Futures programme.

This short summary provides an overview of the programme, it’s evaluation, insights and recommendations specifically tailored for policymakers, funders and comissioners.

Evaluation approach

The evaluation focused on:

1. the implementation of Inspiring Futures and how it responded to the needs, challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic
2. the differences made by Inspiring Futures;
3. learning for the future.

The evaluation was launched in December 2020 and final evaluation outputs were produced by March 2023.

Further outputs

This can be read alongside:

• Final report
• Technical appendix
• Deep-dive case studies
• Impacts of COVID-19 report
• Tailored summary reports for: (1) practitioners and frontline
  organisations; (2) strategic stakeholders, funders, commissioners and policymakers; and (3) children and young people.