News and opinion

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…

Today, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) and Department for Education (DfE) have launched their new Systems Evidence and Gap Map (EGM).

At the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), we know that to achieve our mission to prevent children getting involved in violence, we need to find out what works to improve attendance at school and reduce exclusions. That's why we're investing in programmes and secondary data analysis to find what works.

Find out what the most recent data tells us about the way crime and violence is affecting young people today

Igraine Rhodes and Sarah Fullick explain why the YEF and EEF are coming together to learn how to improve school attendance and reduce exclusion.