The Step Together project has initially partnered with Erdington Academy in Birmingham and will see youth workers based along routes to school, acting as trusted adults and a point of contact.
Donna Molloy at the EIF explains why expanding the evidence for family-based approaches and its impact on reducing youth violence could be a game-changer.
Finding out how support for families can prevent violence The Youth Endowment Fund and Comic Relief open applications for their £10 million programme to find out how family support can prevent violence and publish a summary of what we already know Today [27/09/21], the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) and Comic Relief have set opened their…
On May 14, we closed the applications for our grant round, Another chance: diversion from the criminal justice system. We set out to fund between 10 and 20 projects from a pot of up to £20 million, because we want to find out how alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody can prevent children and young…
At the end of last month, we launched the YEF Toolkit – an accessible, online tool that provides free-to-use summaries of the best available research on keeping children safe from becoming involved in violence. I’ve blogged before to explain how you can use it. Now, I want to share some of things the the YEF…
Last week, we launched the YEF Toolkit – an accessible, online tool that provides free-to-use summaries of the best available research on what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence. We’ve developed the Toolkit to help police forces, local authorities, youth charities, school leaders and others use evidence when making decisions about how best…
This week, we hosted a special event with Home Secretary, Priti Patel, to launch the Youth Endowment Fund’s flagship Toolkit. We were joined by the Minister for Safeguarding, Victoria Atkins MP, and an expert panel of speakers to discuss the importance of evidence-informed services to keep children and young people safe from violence. Our Toolkit…
Today, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has launched their new Toolkit, which shows what works - and what doesn’t - to reduce youth violence. It is easy to understand, free and online.