The Enrichment Partnerships Pilot (EPP) is taking place in three geographic regions (the North East, the North West, and the East of England) and aims to improve access to enrichment activities for secondary school aged pupils by coordinating local enrichment provision.
The evaluation aims to understand how the pilot was delivered, if the intended outcomes were achieved and to gather learnings for any future delivery.
Schools in the North East, North West and East of England have been invited to take part in the pilot.
NFER are conducting an evaluation of the EPP. We are working with National Citizen Service Trust (NCST) and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) who are delivering the pilot. The evaluation aims to understand:
- What enrichment activities were delivered during the pilot.
- How the pilot was delivered and what worked well or less well.
- How coordinating organisations, enrichment providers, schools and pupils responded to the pilot.
- What has changed because of the pilot and the extent to which these changes can be sustained.
The evaluation consists of pilot-wide data collection where we will ask all coordinating organisations, enrichment providers and schools participating in the pilot to take part in these activities.
We will also invite a small number of schools and enrichment providers to take part in case studies to gain a more detailed understanding of what happened over the course of the pilot.
By participating in this evaluation, your school will be helping us to find out how successful the pilot has been at improving the quality and uptake of enrichment activities, and help us understand how the activities can be improved, which will benefit other schools and pupils in the future.
Baseline data will be collected in June 2024 for schools and in November 2024 for enrichment providers. Follow-up data will be collected from February to March 2025 to explore any changes.
The final report for the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Education (DfE) will be available in summer 2025, and will be published on the Gov.uk website.
Recruitment for this project has closed.
If you would like any additional information or have any further questions, please contact the
research team at [email protected].
