Evaluation Title

Talking to Byron

Summary of evaluation

An evaluation of Talking to Byron, a drama-based knife crime awareness project, funded by the Home Office, that the NYT took into schools in three London boroughs from January 2009  — September 2009 (9 months). This report shows the impact of Talking to Byron on its audiences – which included adults as well as younger people - - it is planned that the report will be available on the NYT website.

Project description

NYT ran Talking to Byron, a new education programme for 12 to 16 year olds which explored issues around knife crime. Funded by the Home Office, Talking to Byron was run for schools and pupil referral units. The programme set out to explore some of the complex underlying issues around young people and knife crime through the process of making theatre and was delivered in partnership with the Metropolitan Police and Be Safe in the London Boroughs of Hackney, Lambeth and Newham in March 2009.

Key Quote

The complexity of circumstances affecting behaviour, coupled with the complexity of social meanings negotiated by children and young people, are bound to make it difficult for researchers to isolate and identify the direct effects of specific interventions, especially for behaviour involving implements such as knives which are readily available.

“If it’s been successful, you wouldn’t know.” Sid Higgins, Executive Director, NYT
11 Million, Young people, and gun and knife crime – a review of the evidence, 16 March 2009

Info

Artform

Drama

Organisation

National Youth Theatre

CJS Context

PRU-Pupil Referral Unit
Schools

Region

England

Author

Richard Ings

Conducted: January 2009 – September 2009
Published: 2009
Type: Independent Report

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