Summary The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is seeking to appoint up to four regional consortia for a Detached Youth Work (DYW) fund. Each consortium will be a multi-agency partnership—led by a public or youth-focused organisation—responsible for planning and delivering DYW in their region as part of a pilot Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT). Working alongside an independent…
About the tender YEF are seeking to better understand suspension, exclusion, and the support that follows. Specifically, why are suspension and exclusion rates rising, and what support are schools, colleges and AP/EOTAS settings in England and Wales offering to children who are suspended (known as ‘fixed term exclusions’ in Wales) and excluded. In addition, how…
About the tender YEF is seeking a team to conduct a review of child-centred policing from the perspectives of children. We want to understand what ‘good’ looks like in interactions with the police, generating specific examples of practice which helps officers to operationalise child-centred policing and engage with children in ways which are grounded in…
About the tender YEF is launching the Catalyst programme to help schools, colleges, and AP settings adopt evidence-based strategies to prevent children’s involvement in violence. The programme will fund 5-6 catalyst organisations to work directly with education settings in high-violence areas, aiming for sustainable, scalable change. We’re seeking proposals from trusted organisations based in Wales…
