Sectors
Sectors

We’re focusing our work on areas where we see the biggest opportunities to improve support for children and young people at risk of becoming involved in violent crime.

See also…
- Violence against women and girls
Education

Youth Justice

Children's Services

Policing

Health

Youth

Neighbourhoods
What works
WHAT WORKS
- YEF Toolkit
GUIDANCE REPORTS
Latest Toolkit strand
Trauma-Informed training and service redesign

Training staff and redesigning services with an explicit focus on recognising trauma and avoiding re-traumatisation.

Cost

£0-500 per participant

Evidence quality

3 out of 5

Impact

LOW
Funding
About our Funding
- Our approach
- Multi-site trials
PROJECTS
- YEF funded projects
- Stories from our projects
Current funding opportunities
- Violence Against Women and Girls Prevention Programme
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Research & Evaluations
Research
EVALUATIONS
Latest report
Report

Report:Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2025
November 24, 2025
This is YEF’s fourth annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed nearly 11,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence.
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Blog

Blog:What works to protect children from gendered harms involving AI systems?
October 20, 2026
Over the past few months, a wave of rogue AI incidents has flooded the news and sparked numerous policy debates. During OpenAI safety testing, a swarm of agents escaped their sandboxes (restricted testing environments) and hacked Hugging Face, hunting for clues on how their test would be marked. METR’s investigation found that over a thousand…
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