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Reboot UK
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Evidence: Observational / pre–post Top 50% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
Reboot UK aimed to test how three targeted interventions (peer mentoring, shared practice, home access) could lead to significant personal benefits for families in poverty, people with mental health issues and homeless people. Generalised support misses people with specific needs
1000 people
People reached (2016)
330 GBP
Average cost per person (2016)
Details
- Maturity
- Pilot
- Promoter
- Good Things Foundation, Family Fund, Homeless Link, Mind, Big Lottery Fund — website
- Type
- Policy
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Unemployed and those facing social problems
- People reached
- 1412
- People targeted
- 1000
- Period
- 2016-01-01 – 2016-07-31
- Keywords
- Homeless Digital Skills Employment
Context
Entrenched digital exclusion amongst vulnerable people (carers, homeless people and people with mental health needs) makes it harder for them to break free from dependency on support services. Reboot UK set out to test how targeted interventions for families in poverty, people with mental health issues and homeless people could lead to significant personal benefits.
Objectives
To test how three targeted interventions (peer mentoring, shared practice, home access) could lead to significant personal benefits, tailoring support to individuals' particular circumstances rather than offering a generalised, standard digital-skills offer.
Activities
Good Things Foundation moved outside the digital sector to work with specialist service-delivery partners (Family Fund, Homeless Link, Mind, Online Centres Network members), primarily using its online digital education platform to deliver individually tailored support.
Results
The intervention reached 1000 people with an average cost of £330 per person. Outcomes achieved include increased wellbeing, internet usage, confidence in using technologies, and digital skills.
Conclusions
Reboot UK is presented as unique in bringing digital-inclusion tools into specialist support for hard-to-reach audiences, focusing on individual needs rather than a standard offer, and framing digital inclusion as supporting recovery, not just as an end in itself.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Commonly funded by
Philanthropic / foundation funding
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Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
- Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
- Information source — accessed 2026-06-14
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