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Described as "tough and uncompromising", Grit Breakthrough Programs uses intensive group workshops and individual coaching to challenge assumptions, attitudes, and expectations, with the aim of helping participants break through self-imposed limitations and build confidence and resilience.

The charity has worked with young people and adults for more than 30 years in a range of settings, from conflict areas, such as Kosovo and Belfast, to young offenders' institutions, schools and universities.

In 2022 Grit began to work with LA teams to challenge and change the notion that social workers operate within risk-averse mindsets, inhibiting them from using their intuition and placing relationships at the heart of what they do.

An evaluation of whether this aim has been achieved has now been carried out by researchers from the Nottingham Institute of Education, part of Nottingham Trent University.

The evaluation included in-depth interviews and focus groups with 30 Grit participants in Children's Services team roles at three LAs, including front-line workers, middle leaders, and senior leaders. Participants were questioned shortly after the initial training and again after around 12 months.

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