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 for 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 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 coutinuing to a full-scale randomised control trial.
Download evaluation protocol (published 14/09/2023)
