Education Practice Insight Creator (EPIC)
Free digital tool and expert guidance for education leaders
More than half of headteachers (51%) say they don’t feel confident identifying and delivering interventions to prevent children’s involvement in violence. And with 82% of teachers receiving no recent training on serious violence, it’s clear education settings need more support.
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has developed two free resources to help:
Education Practice Insight Creator (EPIC)
EPIC helps education leaders reflect on their current approach to preventing violence and improve it using the best available evidence.
- Built with and for senior education leaders
- Takes less than 40 minutes to complete
- Provides instant insights and tailored recommendations
- Helps plan improvements as a leadership team
- 100% of pilot settings completed it easily and found it valuable
Explore our guidance: Education, Children and Violence
This evidence-based guidance gives education leaders five clear recommendations to help reduce children’s risk of violence.
What’s inside:
- How to improve attendance and keep children in education
- When and how to offer one-to-one mentoring
- Ways to build social and emotional skills across your setting
Make informed decisions today
Whether you’re leading a mainstream school, college or alternative provision setting, EPIC and our guidance can help you take the next step.
Useful links
- Guidance
Report:Education Policy, Children and Violence
Our Education Policy, Children and Violence guidance, provides education policymakers across England and Wales with eight recommendations on how to prevent children’s involvement in violence. Recommendations All the recommendations propose changes to the education system in both England and Wales, except for Recommendation 3. This recommendation applies only to England, as it addresses Ofsted’s recently… - Guidance
Report:Education guidance
Our Education, Children and Violence guidance provides school, college and alternative provision (AP) leaders across England and Wales with fiveevidence-based recommendations on how to help prevent children’s involvement in violence. Recommendations The recommendations in this report provide guidance on the ‘best bets’ from the underpinning evidence. School, college and AP leaders’ professional judgement on how…Education
