Peer Research Report

The Peer research was one of the major and most successful pieces of work within WMTD.  We wanted to find out from young people aged 16 and above what made the difference whilst in care and preparing to leave to care.  In order to do this though we wanted to empower care leavers to get these messages so we trained young people as Peer Researchers to do this study.

With the support of our research partner NCB we successfully trained 33 young people as peer researchers within the participating 25 local authorities.  Our initial target was for 250 interviews to be conducted, we exceeded this target with 265 interviews being completed.

The success of this study is testament to the hard work of the Peer Researchers, the support from the Personal Advisors and the Local Authorities and most importantly the 265 young people who gave up their time to be interviewed.

Here you will find the full 90 page report, Executive summary, the focus group write up as well as some of the procedural documents that were used in the study.

• Peer Research
• Peer Research Executive Summary
• Focus Group write up

1. Peer Research pack for Local Authorities
2. Manual for WMTD Peer Researchers
3. Peer Research manual for Personal Advisors
4. Guidelines for Local Authorities
5. Project information and Contact details
6. Thank you letter