The project evaluated the success ‘Transforming Youth Custody’ and provided evidence-based findings to help inform future delivery of the programme. A host of academics from Manchester Metropolitan University, including Professor Hannah Smithson, Professor Chris Fox, Dr Paul Gray, Graham Smyth and Dr Rowenna Baldwin, were involved in the project. They worked alongside Carney Green Consultancy Company to carry out the evaluation. The project tested the pillars of effective delivery identified by the Youth Justice Board in the context of their newly devised resettlement consortium. Qualitative research involved focus groups and interviews with the breadth of operational staff. Quantitative research into the young people involved in the four resettlement consortia was also carried out.