a multi-stage and multi-site evaluation of a new, co-designed boxing intervention.

About the project Attendance Mentors is delivered by Etio and funded by the Department for Education. It is a 12-week targeted intervention for pupils in Years 7–11 of mainstream secondary schools in England identified as persistently or severely absent. Pupils are paired with a trained mentor for up to 12 one-to-one sessions, with additional engagement…

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,…

Fostering Connections offers training and support to help social work teams, working with young people in foster care, and their foster carers understand and use trauma-informed practices.

This project offers five-week placements away from school for children who have behavioural difficulties.

SHiFT works with children who are caught up in or are at risk of harm.

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