Professor Tony Chapman

Tony Chapman led an evaluation of UK Youth’s Youth Achievement Awards in 2007, funded by The Drinkaware Trust and JP Morgan Philanthropy.

Youth Achievement Awards were introduced nationally in 1997 and are an activity-based approach to peer education. The awards were designed to help develop more effective participative practice by encouraging young people to take more responsibility in selecting, planning and leading activities that are based on their interests.

The final report, Small Steps and Giant Leaps, emphasised the importance of recognising the value of non-conventional educational practices, especially for young people who had been marginalised or excluded from conventional education. Completed in 2006