Catalyst and The National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 Digital Response are supporting organisations actively tackling challenges across four sectors; early years; financial wellbeing; mental health and wellbeing; and sexual abuse and domestic violence. For this project, the focus of our partnership is on the early years, developing and testing different ways of supporting early years services to reach digitally excluded families.

Grosvenor Hart Homes is a new social enterprise on a mission to improve the life chances of vulnerable children, young people, and their families.

Keys to the Future is a joint learning partnership between Barnardo’s and Dartington that seeks to embed the Rapid-cycle design and testing approach to the design, implementation, and refinement of homelessness provision and sustainability planning in North Lanarkshire for families

We are working in partnership with leading cancer charities, Young Lives vs Cancer, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust to build a new evidence base looking at the needs of young cancer patients and how the current system supports them. The research will identify gaps and what needs to happen in order to build a better future for children and young people diagnosed with cancer.

We are working as an evaluator and Learning Partner for the Youth Endowment Fund, supporting their work with those at risk of youth violence.

The projects we are currently working on are: Becoming a Man, Pause For Thought, COVID-19 Learning Partnership, Big Brothers Little Sisters and Neighbourhood Fund.

Over the last few years, both the Dartington Service Design Lab and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University have been working on approaches to help accelerate the impact of early years services. In 2019, we collaborated with the Harvard Center, to run three days of training on the IDEAS Impact Framework: a new approach to service development and evaluation, created by the Center.

Reimagining Secure Care is a systemic change programme in Scotland to transform children and young people’s experiences of settings where their liberty is deprived and to find alternatives to being removed from their families and communities to access the additional support they need.

Reimagining Justice is a programme of transformational change to help redefine services for children and young people on the cusp of or in conflict with the law in Scotland.

We are working in partnership to undertake a three-year system change  initiative to promote young people’s emotional wellbeing and to address emotional coercive control in adolescent relationships.  It forms part of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Early Action System Change Fund tackling the root causes of inequality.

Using system dynamics we are helping local authorities to understand system behaviours operating within their children’s social care services, to help improve policy, process,  and practice and  ultimately  to keep more children safely at home with their families.

We are working in collaboration with Barnardo’s and local authorities in Plymouth and Brent to support more care-experienced young people to be in employment, education or training by the age of 19-21.

We are working in partnership with Renfrewshire Children’s Social Care and Snook to transform the way young people’s experiences are heard and acted upon within the care system. Key to the project is the co-design of a feedback tool that can be mapped against a new young person-centred quality assurance framework.