The Youth Compass Project

Supporting young people to make positive choices and develop the all-important skills they need to navigate through life.

The free resources we’ve developed can be used with young people aged 11-17 years old – in schools, by youth workers and youth offending teams – in fact, any organisation that works with young people.

By giving them a moral compass by which to steer their decision-making, Youth Compass can help young people to:

  • improve their relationships with teachers, peers and families
  • enhance their personal, professional and educational outcomes
  • reduce rule-breaking, antisocial behaviour and crime

The project is already having a positive impact and enjoying considerable success.

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About Youth Compass

Addressing the need for appropriate rule-following intervention programmes for young people.
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Resources

Whether you’d like to deliver Youth Compass yourself or learn more about our research, you can access our programme materials and published articles for free.
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Project delivery

Following our successful pilot in 2022, we’re excited to deliver Youth Compass in schools in autumn 2023.

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Meet the team

We are a small but dedicated team – keen to work with you to support the young people in your care.

Our heartfelt thanks

We are enormously grateful to our project funders for their generosity – The British Academy, Anglia Ruskin University and Loughborough University.

And would also like to thank the following people for their gifts of time, expertise and support – Dr Beth Hardie, Dr Alex Sutherland, Dr Alison Jane Martingano, Dr Nick Caddick, Jon Sanders, Dr Fran Azpitarte, Alex Dopadlik, Dr David Humphreys, Dr Patrick McClanahan, Dr Ali Wigzell, Dr Dominic Willmott, Victoria Gadd, Charles Drew, Joanna Parish and Susanna Cooke.

In addition, we thank Romsey Mill for their tireless support during the Youth Compass Pilot Study as well as the three LPSN schools - Commonweal School (Swindon), Ashcombe School (Dorking) and North Gosforth Academy (Newcastle) - during the autumn 2023 school delivery.