Programme type: Parenting programme
Evaluation type: Adaptation, feasibility, pilot and efficacy study
Status: In progress
This parenting programme involves trained practitioners working with parents to support the use of positive parenting strategies at home. It involves parents attending about 10-14 weekly sessions.
The programme aims to improve parental strategies and approaches to discipline and to improve children’s behaviour in the shorter-term, and in the longer term to prevent antisocial, offending and criminal behaviour, reduce school exclusions and improve academic performance. GenPMTO has robust evidence from other countries of improving a range of important outcomes, including reducing arrests.
The Lab will be conducting a multi-stage evaluation over three years, partnering with Implementation Sciences International (programme developers) and Barnardo’s (as a delivery partner). This will involve testing and optimising the delivery of the programme in the UK, piloting an approach to evaluating the programme’s effectiveness, and then continuing to a full-scale randomised control trial.
Download evaluation protocol (published 14/09/2023)