Past event archive

Listen to our latest Virtual Learning Café which discusses ‘What does a financially sustainable system that meets the needs of children and young people with SEND look like?’ Joined by Natalie Parish and Sam Baars, authors of a recently published report by Isos Partnership which documents the findings from a multi-year research project funded by…

Listen to YEF’s Executive Director Jon Yates in conversation with Jens Ludwig –  Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, Pritzker Director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, co-director of the Education Lab, and codirector of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on the economics…

This session focused on a series of recent research projects on youth diversion and OOCRs led by the Centre for Justice Innovation. These projects provide insights into the current issues facing the youth justice sector and opportunities for improvement. This session will highlight key research findings on: We will be joined by experts, including: Claire…

Listen to the replay as we discuss what the evidence says about this popular approach, what are the common key principles as shared by leading practitioners with insights to their model and future opportunities that YEF is working towards to understand the impact of detached youth work at a neighbourhood level. Detached youth work aims…

Join YEF’s Executive Director Jon Yates for this Virtual Learning Café introduced Tori Olphin MBE, the Head of Data Science, Research and Evaluation at Thames Valley Violence Prevention Partnership. Tori shared the evaluation project management tool she has developed at Thames Valley, experiences and learnings gained from running small RCTs and QEDs and reflections on…

YEF’s Director of Public Affairs and Communications Ciaran Thapar introduced sociologist Professor Forrest Stuart. Dr Stuart will talk through his co-participatory research into urban poverty, violence, and resilience, including his award-winning 2021 book, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music and the Power of Online Infamy.

There is strong evidence that diverting children who have committed low-level or first-time offences, rather than taking them to court, can protect them from future involvement in crime and violence. It can also lower the severity of any crimes they do later commit. Diverting children is also likely to achieve these results for a lower…

This session chaired by Dennis Simms, Head of Change for Education at YEF, provided an opportunity to hear from experts and practitioners on our recently published Education Guidance.  Joe Collin, Guidance and Reporting Lead, focused on the five evidence-informed recommendations in our guidance and explored the opportunities and challenges associated with implementation. Dirk Pittard, Principal of…

Watch the replay Do you work with families affected by child criminal exploitation? The session focused on learning about how to work in partnership with parents/carers of children affected by, or at risk of child criminal exploitation. The parents or carers of children affected by child criminal exploitation, can be an essential part of the…

Virtual Learning Café Watch the replay: This session focused on hotspots policing – a policing strategy that targets resources and activities to places where crime is most concentrated. There is a growing evidence-base which suggests that hotspots policing is likely to be effective at reducing violence. This is one of the reasons why in 2019…

The conference provided support to local decision makers (funders and local commissioners) who are commissioning youth work programmes with an aim to reduce youth violence. We spoke through the best available research based on the evidence of what works via the YEF Toolkit, which will drive and transition youth and community sector organisations to deliver…

The first Youth Endowment Fund conference for the Children’s Services sector, provided an opportunity to hear from experts across the sector about impactful and promising parenting interventions for children at risk of violence, and how to effectively engage parents/carers with these interventions. Keynote speakers included: We also ran Interactive workshops: A panel discussion was also…