Dates: 1 July 2024 - 30 June 2025
Funder: National Institute for Health and Care Research
Project description
Up to half of young people aged 13-17 experience some form of abuse in their intimate relationships. However, we lack evaluations of services designed to support young people who experience this form of abuse.
Aims
This evaluation aims to find out who uses YPIDVA services, what young people want from the support they receive and whether the support is what they need. The overall aim is to understand more about what works and what can be improved. why organisations have or have not started to digitise their care records • people’s expectations about how digitising care records will change things
Methods
We will include YPIDVA services in four to five sites across England and Wales. We aim to interview 45 young people and 25 staff in total. We will collect and analyse routinely collected YPIDVA monitoring data held by services. In three sites we will also talk with wider organisations who refer young people for support.
Further project information
Principal Investigator: Christine Barter (UCLan)
Research team: Helen Beckett (UCLan), Nicola Farrelly (UCLan), Martha Snow (LSE), Jessica Carlisle (LSE)
Collaborators: SafeLives
Countries: England and Wales
Keywords: evaluation, young people, survivors, Intimate violence and abuse, interventions
Violence and abuse in young people’s relationships is a major social issue which can led to substantial long-term negative consequences for victims. Young People’s Independent Domestic Violence Advisers (YPIDVAs) provide specialist support to young people who are at immediate and significant risk of this form of abuse. However, as few YPIDVA evaluations have been undertaken, we lack understanding of what works, for which young people and in what contexts. Our evaluation aims to bridge this gap in knowledge and provide important findings, based on young people’s own experiences and views, on what they need from YPIDVA services and how these vital services can be improved to better support positive change in young people’s lives.