In Part Two of our blogs celebrating International Youth Day, Peter Babudu, Assistant Director of Research & Youth Understanding, explains why young people’s involvement in the YEF’s work is vital for creating change. How do you bring about a world where no child is involved in violence? At the Youth Endowment Fund we’re gathering some…
I want to tell you about a child – aged just ten years old – whose life was being shaped by the violence around him. Leo’s* dad was a gang leader. There were people in his life who were deeply connected to crime and violence. He looked up to them, wanted to be like them.…
At the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), we know that to achieve our mission to prevent children getting involved in violence, we need to find out what works to improve attendance at school and reduce exclusions. That's why we're investing in programmes and secondary data analysis to find what works.
Through our Another chance – Diversion from the criminal justice system grant round, we’re investing £18m in alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody for children. We catch-up with some of the funded organisations to find out about their work and ask why they think diversion programmes are so important. YES Outdoors “The young people we…
Donna Molloy at the EIF explains why expanding the evidence for family-based approaches and its impact on reducing youth violence could be a game-changer.
On May 14, we closed the applications for our grant round, Another chance: diversion from the criminal justice system. We set out to fund between 10 and 20 projects from a pot of up to £20 million, because we want to find out how alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody can prevent children and young…
At the end of last month, we launched the YEF Toolkit – an accessible, online tool that provides free-to-use summaries of the best available research on keeping children safe from becoming involved in violence. I’ve blogged before to explain how you can use it. Now, I want to share some of things the the YEF…
Last week, we launched the YEF Toolkit – an accessible, online tool that provides free-to-use summaries of the best available research on what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence. We’ve developed the Toolkit to help police forces, local authorities, youth charities, school leaders and others use evidence when making decisions about how best…
