Inspiring Futures scoping report

Summary

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

This scoping report was developed collaboratively between key programme stakeholders.

It includes:

• A review of Inspiring Futures to date based on documentation provided by Youth Futures Foundation and BBC Children in Need.
• Information from ongoing project launch and management meetings, and discussions with key stakeholders at Youth Futures Foundation and BBC Children in Need.
• Evidence from consultation with nine key Inspiring Futures stakeholders via semi-structured interviews.

Further outputs

This report can be read in conjunction with the following outputs, which provide more detail about the final programme evaluation released in 2023:

• Full report
• Technical appendix – presents the analysis of secondary monitoring report data collected by BBC CIN and YFF as part of Inspiring Futures.
• Deep-dive case studies
• Impacts of COVID-19 report – specific evaluation findings
  relating to the impacts of COVID-19 for children and young people’s pathways to employment and the grantees who support them.
• Tailored summary reports for: (1) practitioners and frontline
  organisations; (2) strategic stakeholders, funders, commissioners and policymakers; and (3) children and young people.