Our latest blog from our Youth Advisory Board member reflects on why lived experience and early support are key to reducing knife crime| Youth Endowment Fund
Programmes that engage children in arts and creative activities.| Youth Endowment Fund
At the Youth Endowment Fund, we aim to prevent children from being drawn into violence. We think any credible plan to reduce violence has to recognise that children rely on seven essential sectors to be safe, one of which is children’s services. In each sector we are working with delivery organisations and system leaders to…| Youth Endowment Fund
Adventure and wilderness therapy programmes involve activities in which children and young people work together to overcome a challenge.| Youth Endowment Fund
Learn more about the work YEF are doing to support the Youth Justice sector - to protect children at risk of involvement in violence.| Youth Endowment Fund
We’ve used the total number of children in contact with NHS-funded secondary mental health, learning disability and autism services as our core measure for this sector. The latest (2023/24) data was published in October 2024. This captures children who have been referred to these services by their GP or another healthcare professional and includes both…| Youth Endowment Fund
At the Youth Endowment Fund, our mission is to prevent children and young people from involvement in violence. To actively tackle this, we acknowledge children are dependent on seven key sectors to help them stay safe – one of these is through psychological therapies and health interventions. In each sector, we are collaborating with delivery…| Youth Endowment Fund
Trauma-specific therapies, also known as trauma-focused interventions, aim to support children to recover from trauma.| Youth Endowment Fund
Diversion is an approach to preventing reoffending by finding alternatives to formal criminal justice proceedings.| Youth Endowment Fund
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.| Youth Endowment Fund
In order to address knife crime effectively, we need to understand the full extent of the problem. View our latest stats, & Toolkit evidence.| Youth Endowment Fund
Prof. Iain Brennan and Dr Tia Simanovic discuss one of the most ambitious and comprehensive evaluations of focused deterrence ever undertaken.| Youth Endowment Fund