Youth Offending Teams are now charged with the responsibility of providing or identifying suitable parenting support and education services for parents subject to a Parenting Order, as well as other parents who may benefit form preventive intervention, In support of this, the Youth Justice Boards’s Parenting Programme funded the development of 42 new parenting projects across England, set up and run by Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) in partnership with other local agencies, both voluntary and statutory. This report documents the results of a three year national evaluation of the effectiveness of the YJB’s Parenting Programme, carried out by the Independent Policy Research Bureau. The research took place between June 1999 and December 2001. Thirty four projects were included in the national evaluation, each of which were also assessed by locally-based research teams. Data collected by these teams form the basis of this report.