David Lee and a team of researchers conducted a research project lasting six years into the government-funded youth training scheme (YTS) in a town in the south-east of England which they called 'Southwich'. YTS was designed to help get school leavers into work by giving them the skills needed in employment, by providing formal education in college linked to government-funded placement with an employer. The research funded by the Leverhulme Trust aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of this scheme. The research methods used included collecting background statistical data, administering two consecutive written questionnaires to school leavers, and conducting almost two hundred interviews with young people on youth training schemes.