VRU Evidence Hub

The Inclusive and Nurturing Schools (INS) programme seeks to reduce suspensions and exclusions by fostering a whole-school nurturing approach. This approach aims to build children and young people's social and emotional skills, resilience, and self-confidence by replicating early nurturing experiences. It also empowers school communities to address sexual harassment and gender-based violence through education, training, and guidance. The Anna Freud Centre is conducting a mixed-methods, realist process evaluation to explore how, why, and for whom the programme is effective.

The Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) and Alternative Provision (AP) Mentoring Programme provides one-to-one support for young people aged 11-18 years-old who have been excluded from secondary school or are at risk of exclusion.

The Difference Matters consultation and co-development process engaged over 100 experts by experience and profession, including neurodivergent young people and their families, an advisory group of mixed sector specialists from across the city, and academics, education professionals and local authority leads. This formative research has led to a new model, which will be tested through a two-year pilot programme in seven boroughs.

The Nurturing London programme was designed to place the 'Whole School Nurturing Approach' into the context of violence reduction. Nurture practice empowers adults in school to allow children and young people to engage in missing early nurturing experiences. This End of Programme Report explores process and outcomes of the programme 2020-2022, considering potential future impact.

The 'Social Switch' project aims to switch the narrative on how social media's relationship to youth violence is understood, tackled and solved; through training practitioners and supporting young people into sustainable digital careers. Catch 22, the delivery provider, commissioned NPC to evaluate the Social Switch Project in terms of process and outcomes.