A pilot area-level randomised controlled trial of detached youth work, where youth workers engage children and young people in public, non-institutional settings where they are known to spend time. 

Detached youth work aims to engage with young people ‘where they are at’, providing youth work in non-institutional settings. These settings are usually places that young people have chosen to be, such as on the street, in parks, shopping centres, fast food outlets or other community spaces. Rather than serving children in a youth club,…

The YEF is funding a feasibility study of a multi-site RCT of grassroots organisations delivering mentoring.