Case Studies - Agency Partners

Staffordshire DAAT

Our partnership with Staffordshire DAAT began in March 2006 and is currently running on approximately 1,914 PC’s in 21 schools, covering 19,000 secondary school students.

The project initially began as part of an initiative to reduce the alcohol consumption of 11 – 15 year olds in the Staffordshire area, which has been a success and resulted in Staffordshire Council being short-listed for a prize in the NICE Shared Learning Database.

An independent report carried out on the project by the University of Keele found the following:

1. Pupils whose schools received the Youth-Bytes programme were less likely to have drunk alcohol in the last 7 days compared with pupils from schools that had no intervention at all.


2. Out of the range of approaches used by Staffordshire County Council the use of Computer Delivered Interventions (through Youth-Bytes) is the intervention where evidence of effectiveness was both reported in the literature and showed promise based on the analysis of local survey data.