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Blog:Youth Endowment Fund and Department for Education launch a new resource to help researchers find evidence on systems of support which may impact young people’s involvement in violence
Today, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) and Department for Education (DfE) have launched their new Systems Evidence and Gap Map (EGM). -
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News:YEF launches new £500,000 research round
YEF launches a call for proposals for projects that use secondary data analysis to answer key questions about violence prevention policy and practice. -
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Blog:Racial disparity in exclusions: what can data tell us?
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. -
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Blog:Download our statistics update to find out about the latest crime trends
Find out what the most recent data tells us about the way crime and violence is affecting young people today -
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Blog:Keeping young people safe at school and improving their life chances
Igraine Rhodes and Sarah Fullick explain why the YEF and EEF are coming together to learn how to improve school attendance and reduce exclusion. -
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News:YEF and EEF launch new grant round
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) and Education Endowment Fund (EEF) launch a new, joint grant round to improve attendance at school SENDING PERSONALISED LETTERS OR TEXTS TO PARENTS CAN HELP IMPROVE ATTENDANCE, BUT WIDER EVIDENCE ON HOW TO REDUCE ABSENTEEISM IS WEAK New evidence review looks at findings from 72 studies that aim to improve… -
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Blog:Spotlight: Neighbourhood Fund
We talk to Graeme Duncan, Chief Executive of Right to Succeed, about leading the YEF Neighbourhood Fund’s work in Norfolk. -
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News:Five local areas selected to each receive up to £1 million to invest in preventing young people’s involvement in crime
The Youth Endowment Fund announces more detail on their plans to empower local people to make decisions about what’s right for their neighbourhood. -
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Blog:Another chance – meet the projects
Through our Another chance – Diversion from the criminal justice system grant round, we’re investing £18m in alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody for children. We catch-up with some of the funded organisations to find out about their work and ask why they think diversion programmes are so important. YES Outdoors “The young people we… -
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News:Evaluating services during a pandemic: learning from our COVID-19 grant round
Evaluating services during a pandemic: learning from our COVID-19 grant round In July 2020, we launched our £6.4m COVID-19 Grant Round. We had two aims: first, to provide targeted support to young people at risk of being involved in violence during the pandemic; and second, to learn fast about the best ways to reach young people during a period of physical distancing. … -
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News:New research finds promising ways of preventing violence
Today, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has added new evidence to their Toolkit, a free online resource which summarises research on what works - and what doesn’t - to reduce youth violence. -
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News:The Youth Endowment Fund announces an £18 million investment in alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody for children.
The Youth Endowment Fund have announced that they’ll invest almost £18 million in ten projects which all support over 7,300 children and young people by giving them another chance.
