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Our Assistant Director of Research and Youth Understanding, Peter Babudu, explains why the YEF needs to focus on race equity to achieve our mission and what we're going to do.

To celebrate International Youth Day we chat to Lily about the work of the Peer Action Collective and being a member of the YEF's Youth Advisory Board.

In Part Two of our blogs celebrating International Youth Day, Peter Babudu, Assistant Director of Research & Youth Understanding, explains why young people’s involvement in the YEF’s work is vital for creating change. How do you bring about a world where no child is involved in violence? At the Youth Endowment Fund we’re gathering some…

I want to tell you about a child – aged just ten years old – whose life was being shaped by the violence around him. Leo’s* dad was a gang leader. There were people in his life who were deeply connected to crime and violence. He looked up to them, wanted to be like them.…

Over the summer of 2020, something very odd happened in Southend-on-Sea. In parts of the city, violent crime plummeted not by 10% or 20%, not even by 40% or 50%. It fell by a whopping 74%. There were fewer serious assaults, robberies and drug trafficking offences. What caused this dramatic fall? It couldn’t be the…