This report, summarised in this brief, concerns an 18-month, Department for Education - funded evaluation of the Social Pedagogy Pilot programme in residential children’s homes in England. The study was a collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Bristol and York. It entailed detailed investigation of a sample of 30 residential children’s homes distributed across England. The overall aim of the research is to evaluate the implementation and impact of the social pedagogy pilot programme; and to consider whether a social pedagogic approach would be likely to have a positive effect within the context of English residential children’s homes.