YEF

The UK riots in August 2024 brought to light significant issues facing the nation’s young people, with a worrying number of teenagers involved in the disturbances. As the situation has calmed, it’s become clear that many of those arrested were young people, prompting crucial discussions about how the justice system handles teenagers and what steps…

Bringing together stories from 1000s of young people The efforts of Peer Researchers and the Delivery Partner organisations supporting them yielded a remarkable amount rich qualitative data from 4,600 young people on issues of violence. Initially, our priority was to validate GenAI’s capability to precisely analyse the diverse data originating from various locations throughout England…

Following our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) visit to No.10 Downing Street, Callum one of our YAB members wrote the following account. On the 20th October 2023 members of the YEF Youth Advisory Board, including myself, visited 10 Downing Street and met with Civil Servants working as part of the Policy Unit, which provides policy advise…

Prof. Iain Brennan and Dr Tia Simanovic discuss the ‘Another Chance’ project.

The Youth Endowment Fund’s Jon Yates, joins Dr Marcellus Baz founder of Switch Up, Coco Khan and Nish Kumar on the Pod Save the UK podcast to discuss the practical solutions to preventing knife crime. You can watch the episode below. Want to find out more about the Youth Endowment Fund’s work to prevent knife…

Jon Yates, Executive Director at the Youth Endowment Fund, presents Radio 4's Analysis programme to investigate.

What works to prevent anti-social behaviour? The Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan was published this week. It sets out the Government’s approach to stamping out anti-social behaviour across England and Wales. BBC Radio 4 – Today programme In response, Jon Yates – Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund – spoke to the Today programme to…

By Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England Over the past year, 39% of teenage children in England and Wales have either been either a victim of or witness to violence. These experiences have significant and widespread consequences – 1 in 7 teenagers said they’d missed school because they’re scared of violence. The same…

Our Assistant Director of Research and Youth Understanding, Peter Babudu, explains why the YEF needs to focus on race equity to achieve our mission and what we're going to do.

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.…