Purpose

This paper aims to explore the purpose and outline the key features of Liverpool Football Club Foundation’s County Lines (CL) programme and how principles of collaboration and co-production can be implemented to educate children at risk of entering the youth justice system.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper reviews the findings from a 12-week CL intervention programme in 14 secondary schools in the Liverpool City Region between 2021 and 2022. The programme was designed in collaboration with funders, partners and participants and aimed to improve knowledge of, and change attitudes towards CL and its associated harms, including knife crime and child exploitation.

Findings

Knowledge and attitude changes were measured across 12 indicators, with positive changes recorded for each indicator. Perhaps of most interest to those working in the sector was the recorded success in obtaining consistent attendance from beginning to end with very little erosion of engagement. This suggests that the content and method of delivery was successful in engaging harder to reach young people to make positive change.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first of its kind to examine how collaboration and co-production (two of the five principles of the Serious Violence Strategy 2018) can be implemented by a football charity and its partners to educate children in a local community on the harms of CL.

中文翻译：

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County Lines 和徽章的力量：LFC 基金会对青年干预的方法

目的

本文旨在探讨利物浦足球俱乐部基金会的 County Lines (CL) 计划的目的和主要特征，以及如何实施合作和共同制作的原则来教育面临进入青少年司法系统风险的儿童。

设计/方法/途径

本文回顾了 2021 年至 2022 年间在利物浦市区 14 所中学开展的为期 12 周的 CL 干预计划的结果。该计划是与资助者、合作伙伴和参与者合作设计的，旨在提高对 CL 的了解并改变对 CL 的态度CL 及其相关危害，包括刀具犯罪和儿童剥削。

发现

通过 12 个指标衡量知识和态度的变化，每个指标都记录了积极的变化。在该部门工作的人最感兴趣的可能是从头到尾获得一致出席的成功记录，而参与度几乎没有受到侵蚀。这表明交付的内容和方法成功地吸引了更难接触到的年轻人做出积极的改变。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，这项研究是同类研究中的第一项，旨在检验足球慈善机构及其合作伙伴如何实施协作和共同制作（2018 年严重暴力战略的五项原则中的两项）以教育当地社区的儿童了解 CL 的危害。