%J British Medical Journal %V 339 %A Meg Wiggins %A Christopher Bonell %A Mary Sawtell %A Helen Austerberry %A Helen Burchett %A Elizabeth Allen %A Vicki Strange %K 11 - 16, Community, Pupil referral unit, Young people, Out of school activities, Children at risk %T Health outcomes of youth development programme in England : Prospective matched comparison study %O This article, an evaluation of a government programme with at risk 13-15 year olds, garnered a huge amount of media interest, and the results were discussed by MPs in Parliament. © Wiggins et al 2009 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. %D 2009 %L discovery10003002