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One teenager punches and kicks another until the victim curls up in the foetal position on the ground. A boy sexually assaults a girl, while his friends cheer him on from the sidelines.

Following our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) visit to No.10 Downing Street, Callum one of our YAB members wrote the following account. On the 20th October 2023 members of the YEF Youth Advisory Board, including myself, visited 10 Downing Street and met with Civil Servants working as part of the Policy Unit, which provides policy advise…

The recent tragic deaths of Elianne Andam, Taye Faik, Max Moy Wheatley and Keelen Morris Wong have once again put knife crime on the front pages. These heartbreaking incidents compel us to ask ourselves some difficult questions. Why did these events occur? Could they have been avoided? How can we stop them from happening again? …

The Youth Endowment Fund is partnering with the Government and Youth Futures Foundation to deliver and evaluate summer jobs programmes for up to 2,600 young people at risk of becoming involved in youth violence and crime.

The study was commissioned to synthesise learning about the design, implementation and effectiveness of place-based approaches.

Prof. Iain Brennan and Dr Tia Simanovic discuss the ‘Another Chance’ project.

Positive activities have the potential to reduce serious youth violence. As the YEF Toolkit explains, sports programmes have a ‘high’ average impact on youth crime and violence.

The Youth Endowment Fund’s Jon Yates, joins Dr Marcellus Baz founder of Switch Up, Coco Khan and Nish Kumar on the Pod Save the UK podcast to discuss the practical solutions to preventing knife crime. You can watch the episode below. Want to find out more about the Youth Endowment Fund’s work to prevent knife…

Jon Yates, Executive Director at the Youth Endowment Fund, presents Radio 4's Analysis programme to investigate.