Making change: What works?
This report seeks to understand what key ingredients enable movements to realise significant change – as well as what we can learn from movements associated with partial or little change. The post...
View ArticleEvaluation in times of uncertainty: applying learning from COVID-19
This is the the third Insights Brief from our COVID-19 Learning Project. The post Evaluation in times of uncertainty: applying learning from COVID-19 appeared first on Youth Endowment Fund.
View ArticleStatistics update (February 2022): The latest data on crime and violence...
This is our first regular statistics update, looking at the latest data on crime and violence affecting young people. The post Statistics update (February 2022): The latest data on crime and violence...
View ArticleStatistics update (May 2022): The latest data on police recorded crime, youth...
This is our second regular statistics update, looking at the latest data on crime and violence affecting young people. The post Statistics update (May 2022): The latest data on police recorded crime,...
View ArticleSystems Evidence and Gap Map
The Systems Evidence and Gap Map is part of a joint research project, run by the Youth Endowment Fund and Department for Education. The post Systems Evidence and Gap Map appeared first on Youth...
View ArticleChildren, violence and vulnerability 2022
Combining a survey of 2,025 children and young people with a review of national statistics, the Children, violence and vulnerability report explores the ways in which violence – and fear of violence –...
View ArticlePeer Action Collective: Leading research, driving change
‘Leading research, driving change‘ summaries the insights gathered by 120 PAC peer researchers, aged 16 to 25, and involved 4,600 participants (aged 10-20). The post Peer Action Collective: Leading...
View ArticleSerious violence – foundational system mapping
The research aimed to create a system map: a visual representation of the structure and relationships within the system of support for children and young people around serious violence. The map is...
View ArticlePlace-based approaches to tackling local youth violence: A review of evidence...
This report sets out the findings of a series of linked studies drawing together evidence about place-based approaches to reduce youth violence. The post Place-based approaches to tackling local youth...
View ArticleChildren, Violence and Vulnerability 2023
This is the YEF’s second annual Children, Violence and Vulnerability report (see the 2022 version). It includes survey responses from over 7,500 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about...
View ArticleSystems Guidance: Arrested Children
The Youth Endowment Fund exists to prevent children from becoming involved in violence. One of the ways we seek to achieve this mission is improving support for children when they are arrested. This...
View ArticleRace Equity Progress Report 2023
In October 2022, we published our race equity goals and objectives. These provide us with clear and actionable targets to work towards and mean that we can be held accountable for our actions,...
View ArticleEducation guidance
Our Education, Children and Violence guidance provides school, college and alternative provision (AP) leaders across England and Wales with fiveevidence-based recommendations on how to help prevent...
View ArticleEffect Size Database
This report summarises the YEF’s Effect Size Database (ESDB), a free repository that reports effect sizes (ES) associated with each study included in the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) Evidence and Gap map...
View ArticleBeyond The Headlines
Purpose and background In this report, we aim to simplify the complexity surrounding violence affecting children and young people in England and Wales. Our goal is to provide a clear account of whether...
View ArticleImplementing Focused Deterrence: Barriers and Opportunities
We asked OC&C Strategy Consultants to conduct a scoping exercise to help us understand which force areas are delivering focused deterrence and, importantly, how they’re delivering it. The insights...
View ArticleKey Facts About Violence
Understanding violence is key to keeping children safe If we want to prevent violence, we need to understand it. The more we know about violence, the better we can...
View ArticleChildren, Violence and Vulnerability 2024
This is YEF’s third annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed over 10,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence. Amid...
View ArticleA review of the literature on how the systems of support available to young...
Background This project is part of the wider Serious Violence Research Programme jointly led by the Youth Endowment Fund and the Department for Education. The Serious Violence Research Programme aims...
View ArticleStatistics update (January 2025): Trends in violence affecting children
This is an update to the statistics published in our Beyond the Headlines report. This update includes latest data on core indicators for knife crime, policing, health, children’s services and the...
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