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Youth Sector System Guidance Launch

A Virtual Learning Café (VLC) run by the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) as part of our YEF Evidence in Practice series.

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Youth Endowment Fund’s new Youth Sector System Guidance at our Virtual Learning Café on 9 July 2026, 10:00–11:00am.

This event brings together senior leaders responsible for making key decisions across the youth sector system (Central Government Policy leads, LA commissioners, Funders, Local councillors, Violence Reduction Units, Housing Leaders, Police and Crime Commissioners).

Aim of the session: Hear the latest system focused evidence recommendations that are can strengthen the youth sector and reduce children and young people’s involvement in violence.

During this Learning Café, we:

  • Introduced the new system guidance and its six key recommendations
  • Explored the evidence base behind each system change
  • Heard from our guest speaker, Luke Billingham (Youth Worker at Hackney Quest & Research Associate at the Open University) responding directly to system guidance recommendation 2 on dedicated funding for youth clubs as a key preventative service.
  • Discussed implications for what this means for youth sector leaders (policy leads, commissioners, and senior charity leads)
  • Provided space for questions and discussion.

Watch the replay


Earlier this year, YEF published the Youth Sector Practice Guidance which has surpassed 1000 downloads. The practice guidance is aimed at youth provision commissioners, setting out eight evidence-based recommendations on how to commission and fund youth provision that helps prevent violence. While the evidence on “what works” is becoming increasingly clear, local commissioners and providers often face wider system barriers that make effective delivery difficult.

Our new Youth Sector System Guidance focuses on addressing these barriers. Drawing on the best available evidence and insights from across the sector, it sets out six practical system changes that would make it easier to deliver effective support to children and young people who are vulnerable to violence.

The guidance has three themes:

  • Reforming funding for youth provision
  • Shaping rollout of major youth policy initiatives
  • Strengthening safeguarding and workforce capability

The recommendations are deliberately pragmatic and designed to influence current policy developments, including Young Futures Hubs, Better Youth Spaces and wider reforms to youth provision across England and Wales.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be an important event set to create conditions for effective youth provision and better outcomes for children and young people.

Who Should Attend?

This session is critical for:

  • Policy Leaders
  • Heads and Directors with responsible for commissioning youth services
  • CEOs of youth delivery organisations
  • National and local funders working in the youth sector
  • Local government councillors responsible for young people

Attendees will leave with clarity on what the evidence says about how the system can support the youth sector.