Summer employment programmes impact evaluation protocol

Overview

We have co-comissioned an evaluation of The Summer Jobs Programme with Youth Endowment Fund. Programme delivery is managed by UK Youth, and the evaluation is being conducted by IFF Research.

The document details the evaluation protocol for the efficacy and effectiveness study.

Trial design: Two-armed, muti-site randomised control trial, with randomisation at the individual young person level

Evaluation setting: Community (England and Wales)

Target group: 16- to 20-year-olds at risk of violence

Target number of participants: 3,000 young people: 1,200 in the Year 2 Internal Pilot (2025);
1,800 in the Year 3 Efficacy Study (2026); 18 Local Delivery Partners during Year 2 Internal Pilot (2025); 30 Local Delivery Partners during Year 3 Efficacy Study (2026)

Primary outcomes and sources:

1. Employment, Education and Training (The Longitudinal Education Outcome (LEO) dataset, which combines employment and education records)
2. Offending (Police National Computer, defined as any offence)