2025 Project Evaluation Report (Phase 2)
Cold Chips and Money is an interactive digital story exploring child criminal exploitation (CCE), sometimes more commonly known as ‘county lines’. Child criminal exploitation is where “children and young people are manipulated and coerced into committing crimes” (NSPCC, 2020).
Catherine McNamara was awarded funding from the University of Surrey’s Arts & Humanities Impact Acceleration Fund in 2023. Between May 2023 and July 2024 we worked with schools, Alternative Provision providers and Youth Offending Teams as well as professionals involved in safeguarding, policing, children’s services and Personal, Social, Health and Economic education to bring the story and workshop to young people in the county.
Read the evaluation report to see how we go on!
We worked with a further 250 young people, bringing total to 1700. We worked with young people in Surrey but also returned to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Read the Phase 2 Evaluation Report below (downloadable)
2021 Project Evaluation Report (Phase One)
Click below to read an evaluation of the 2021 phase of the Cold Chips & Money project. We developed the interactive digital story, in collaboration with Active Communities Network (Hampshire), several professionals from a range of Children’s Services backgrounds and the University of Portsmouth. The story was then used by teachers and a Youth Offending team and we reached 1.451 young people. The report is written by Dr Catherine McNamara (project lead) and Alexandra Russell (project facilitator and evaluator).
To read and listen to more:
McNamara, C. (2024). Tackling child criminal exploitation (CCE): an arts-based approach. Pastoral Care in Education, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643944.2024.2413192
To read with the best view, please use this link to the journal:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02643944.2024.2413192?src=recsys#abstract
Alternatively you can see the article here:
The Uncensored Critic Podcast (14 minutes, 12 seconds in)
Guildford School of Acting attempts to tackle County Lines exploitation
Surrey Business Magazine, Issue 68 (p.71)
Signposting
Know your school Safeguarding officer: Who is it in your school? How do you contact them. Ensure young people know this.
