Tenders & suppliers

Understanding Referral Pathways for Arrested Children – Invitation to tender

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) and the Department for Education (DfE) are co-funding a research programme called the ‘Serious Violence Research Programme’, working to examine how systems of support protect or expose children and their families to involvement in crime and violence.

We are pleased to invite tenders for a research project to examine the systems in place for ensuring that children get the support they need when they come into contact with the police. This includes:

• How police act to safeguard arrested children
• How arrested children are identified for, referred to, and access diversion services

 The preliminary research questions are:

• How well do the police act to safeguard vulnerable children they arrest? Are they aware of the available referral pathways and services, and do they use them? If not, why not?
• What are the barriers and challenges to safeguarding arrested children?
• Are the police aware of the National Vulnerability Action Plan and is it having an impact on practice?
• What support is available for arrested children? What are the eligibility criteria? How are children referred to them?
• How do the police, social services, schools and community organisations collaborate and share information to best support arrested children?
• How quickly do children proceed to support after being arrested? How is this impacted by ongoing police investigations?
• What structural changes could ensure children diverted from the criminal justice system access timely and effective support?

Download the information pack 

Proposed research questions and accompanying contextual information is included in the information pack. 

Apply

The deadline to submit proposals is 17:00 Friday 26th April 2024. All proposals will be reviewed by the YEF, using the criteria provided in Appendix 1 of the information pack.

Questions can be submitted until 12^th April 2024.

Clarification questions and answers can be read below.

Please send proposals and / or any questions to Stevie-Jade Hardy at stevie-jade.hardy@youthendowmentfund.org.uk.

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Youth Justice Partnership – Call for Proposals

We’re looking to build a partnership with a credible and trusted organisation(s) within the youth justice sector, in order to:

• Build awareness and appetite for evidence across the youth justice sector.
• Support Youth Justice Services to improve practice and do what works.
• Support the Youth Endowment Fund to deliver the recommendations set out in our Systems Guidance: ‘Arrested Children: How to keep children safe and reduce reoffending.’

Download the information pack

Proposed research questions and accompanying contextual information is included in the information pack. 

Apply

We invite bidders to submit proposals of no more than 4,000 words by 17:00 Friday 17th May 2024.

Questions can be submitted until Friday 26th April 2024.

Clarification questions and answers will be published here.

Please send proposals and / or any questions to Stevie-Jade Hardy at stevie-jade.hardy@youthendowmentfund.org.uk.

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Psychological therapy interventions that aim to reduce serious youth violence – a Multi-Site Trial (MST) – call for Expression of Interest (EOI)

The YEF invites proposals from independent umbrella psychological health organisations to partner with us to deliver a multi-site trial on psychological therapy interventions that aim to reduce serious youth violence.

The trial will be aiming to treat psychological and emotional problems in children and young people at risk of becoming involved in crime and violence or those already involved in the youth justice system.

Applying organisations should:

• Be able to ensure – through an open call to their networks – that at least 50% of organisations funded are led by Black, Asian and other racially minoritised leaders.
• Be able to bring together a network of organisations, delivering psychological therapy interventions to reach a combined minimum 1,000 young people in England and Wales.
• Be able to support young people who identify as Black, Asian or minority ethnic. We would expect applying organisations to be able to reach at least 30% of participants from racially minoritised backgrounds by the end of project delivery.
• Be able to support and lead organisations to agree a core set of delivery principles.

Download the information pack

Apply

To express interest, please fill in the EOI form in Annex 1 and send it to Fahmida Begum via email: Fahmida.Begum@youthendowmentfund.org.uk by 5pm, Friday 24th May 2024.