If you are a safeguarding professional working with children aged 10–17 who are vulnerable to violence but don’t meet statutory thresholds, we want to hear from you. We’re working with the Centre for Safer Society to develop practical insights. Survey: freeonlinesurveys.com/s/tracking-C...

What does a public health approach to violence reduction actually look like in practice? Join us for a live conversation with @lbilli91.bsky.social & @crmnlgy.bsky.social about their new book — conversation hosted by Ciaran Thapar. 📅 6 May | 11:00–12:00 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/the-p...

"We need to see young people that are being criminally exploited as victims." This National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, hear a young man's story of county lines, how he found a way out, and what needs to change. ⚠️ Listener discretion advised. Full Safe to Talk episode: pod.fo/e/38da50

After 15 years in the Met, Laks Mann (Change Lead for Policing) explains why evidence-informed policing is key to protecting vulnerable children — and preventing violence before it escalates. What works. What doesn’t. And why it matters. 👉 Read more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/from-frontli...

15% of teenagers in relationships have experienced physical or sexual abuse. We're investing £2.1m to build the evidence for what works to prevent it — funding two school programmes across Greater London and Greater Manchester. Full story: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/news/yef-inv...

51% of headteachers say they’re not confident identifying evidence-based ways to prevent children’s involvement in violence. 250 schools have completed EPIC — our free self-assessment tool helping leaders benchmark practice and identify improvements. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/insights-int...

📣 Join the Youth Endowment Fund as a Senior Grants & Commissioning Manager. Be part of our mission in preventing children and young people becoming involved in violence. Closing date: 17/3/26, 12PM. 📌Apply here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/ #NGOjobs #Hiring

📣 Virtual Learning Café: Youth Clubs & Violence Prevention Youth clubs provide open-access, community spaces where young people build trusted relationships and access support. Join us to explore the evidence: 📅 21/4: 11:00–12:30 | Online 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/youth...

Council-run youth centres in Britain have more than halved since 2010. What has this meant for young people? New episode of Safe with Emma Warren: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/podcast/yout... #YouthClubs #YouthWork #ViolencePrevention

Are you a safeguarding professional working with 10–17-year-olds at risk of violence below statutory thresholds? We’re working with the Centre for Safer Society to understand how services can better track and support them. Please complete the survey: freeonlinesurveys.com/s/tracking-C...

250 schools have now completed an Education Practice Insight Creator (EPIC) self-assessment. EPIC is a free, anonymous tool that helps education leaders assess how their setting aligns with evidence on preventing children’s involvement in violence. Visit: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/education-pr...

New opportunities to join us in preventing children and young people being affected by violence. *️⃣ Delivery Operations Manager [🗓️ 8/3/26] *️⃣ Programme Manager [🗓️ 13/3/26] *️⃣ Senior Grants & Commissioning Manager [🗓️ 17/3/26] 📌More information and how to apply: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/

Not every evaluation shows the impact we hoped for. That’s not failure — it’s how violence prevention improves. Our latest blog explores what mixed and null evaluation results tell us about implementation, relationships, and impact. 👉 Learn more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/progress-not...

We’ve refreshed most indicators in our Core Indicators of Violence dashboard. It tracks 10-year trends in violence affecting children and young people in England and Wales — and shows whether the systems around them are improving or under pressure. Visit: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/core...

Join our Virtual Learning Café where we’ll explore the relationship between sleep, emotional regulation and violence prevention across Health and Youth Justice contexts. 📅10th March 🕙11:00 AM to 12:30 PM 📌Online Register here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/sleep... #Webinar #EvidenceBased

📣 New opportunity to join our team as a Programme Manager. You will be part of deciding which projects we should fund and evaluate - a key part of our mission to ensure every child can grow up safe from harm. Apply: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/ #NGOjobs #Hiring #ViolencePrevention

📢There is still time to support policing activity in the Whole Area Model (WAM). We are looking to commission one or more policing consultants to work alongside their WAM sites to strengthen and develop key aspects of diversion practice. Deadline: 27/2/26 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/tenders/supp...

When a child is found carrying a knife, what should happen next? New Government guidance highlights evidence-informed intervention and the role of the YEF Toolkit. Our Head of Change for Youth Justice explores the implications for Youth Justice Services. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/new-governme...

Jeanette Bain-Burnett, Executive Director for Policy and Integrity at @sport-england-se.bsky.social, on how following the recommendations in our Youth Sector Practice Guidance can keep children as far away as possible from harm. 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/yout...

Lost learning isn’t just about attainment. YEF’s first recommendation in our Education Practice Guidance is: Keep children in education. Education can reduce the risk of involvement in serious violence by providing trusted adults, safety and stability. 📘 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ...

What does lost learning tell us about vulnerability? In SAFE this week, @dkgill.bsky.social - former teacher & founder of @thedifferenceed.bsky.social explores how schools can act as a protective factor and prevent lost learning.

When young people are repeatedly treated as though they don’t matter, they will look for ways to feel seen. In Safe, host Ciaran Thapar speaks with Professor Forrest Stuart about the complex relationship between online validation, victimisation and violence. 🎧 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/podcast/

📣 Call for Proposals #Policing We are looking to commission one or more policing consultants to work alongside their Whole Area Model (WAM) sites to strengthen and develop key aspects of diversion practice. Deadline: 27 February 2026 Learn more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/tenders/supp...

Join our next Children's Services Virtual Learning Cafe which will include a review of the evidence base, and provide practical insights into delivery of functional family therapy. 🗓️ 26 February 2026 ⏰ 10:30am-12pm Register here: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/funct...

The Government announced that every child caught carrying a knife in England and Wales will be referred for a mandatory, targeted plan to prevent reoffending. Mandating evidence-based support to tackle root causes is an important step in reducing serious violence. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/

New Toolkit strand: detached youth work. With very few evaluations and no studies measuring its impact on reducing violence, there is currently insufficient evidence to calculate an impact rating. What it involves, its likely cost, and key considerations: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/deta...

Professor Forrest Stuart explains how violence leads some young people to use social media to assess risk and reroute their walk to school. In Safe, he speaks with host Ciaran Thapar about how social media can amplify harm — while also becoming a survival tool. 🎧 open.spotify.com/show/1UfBnjl...

📢 New tender: YEF is seeking a team to review how well the mental health & neurodevelopmental needs of children in the youth justice system are identified and supported — with a focus on Black, Asian & minoritised children. 👉 Learn more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/tenders/yef-... #Tender

📉 New Office for National Statistics figures show a sharp fall in teenage homicides — the lowest in over 10 years. Our blog explains the trends, and why evidence-based prevention matters. Read more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/teenage-homi... #YouthViolence #ONSData #PreventionWorks

In a world of social media and toxic influencers, trusted adults matter more than ever. On Safe, Jack Reynolds (CEO, #FootballBeyondBorders) reflects on how relationships built through football can be a powerful tool in supporting the next generation. youthendowmentfund.org.uk/safe-podcast/

We have published four new evaluation reports from our funded projects. They cover the following interventions: *️⃣STEER *️⃣Roots of Empathy *️⃣Your Choice *️⃣Think Again Learn more about these evaluations: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/eval...

Violence shapes too many young lives — often in ways we don’t talk about. Safe is a new podcast from YEF, hosted by Ciaran Thapar, bringing lived experience and evidence together to explore what safety really means for children and young people. 🎙️ Trailer out now www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3RM...

“One consistent adult who listens, shows empathy, and follows through shapes how a young person seeks help and makes decisions.” Muna, a member of our Youth Advisory Board and PAC Wales, on the power of trusted adults and the youth-ledTrusted Adult Walk: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/trusted-adul...

Dr Junior Smart OBE, FCGI on targeted, sustained youth work — and why it matters for violence prevention. Our Youth Sector Practice Guidance sets out practical recommendations for commissioners and funders. 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/yout... @stgilestrust.bsky.social

🚀 New guidance out now: Youth work and violence prevention Presenting eight evidence-based steps to prevent youth violence — informed by youth worker insight. 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/yout...

🆕 New toolkit strand: Youth Clubs. Our latest evidence suggests youth clubs show promise in preventing violence- they may reduce offending by 13%. Confidence in this estimate is very low, as it is based on a small number of UK studies. 👉 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/toolkit/yout...

📢 We're commissioning research in three areas: ➡️ Youth justice responses to serious violence, weapons offences & VAWG ➡️ Community sentences for children ➡️ Custody resettlement for children and young people Deadline: 2nd March 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/tenders/?utm...

📣 New webinar: Violence Prevention for Children’s Services. Join our Virtual Learning Café for the latest children’s services evidence insights. 📅 3 Feb | 10:00–11:00 | Online 🔗 Register: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/viole... #ChildrensServices #ViolencePrevention

What works in the youth sector to prevent violence? Join our Virtual Learning Café on 29 Jan as we launch our Youth Sector Practice Guidance: a new, evidence-based resource designed to strengthen how the sector supports children at risk of violence. 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/events/launc...

📢 We’re hiring a Senior Change Manager, Youth Justice. Help prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence by supporting youth justice services and police to adopt evidence-based practice. 🔗 Apply: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/ #YouthJustice #Job

Coercion and control are a documented feature of children’s experiences of exploitation across England and Wales. Read our final report of our Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2025 series, Exploitation and ‘gangs’: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...

Youth Advisory Board members say the exposure to adult pressures accelerates mental health challenges. Our CVV report shows more than 1 in 4 teenage children are experiencing high levels of mental health difficulties —equivalent to around 1,000,000 teenagers. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKK...

📣 Our fourth call for secondary data analysis proposals is open. We’re funding projects to build evidence used to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. Details & how to apply: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/grants/secon... #ResearchFunding #EvidenceBuilding

Barriers to mental health support are pushing some teenagers towards AI chatbots, according to our Youth Advisory Board. 🎥 Watch their full discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKK... #CVV2025 #YouthVoice #MentalHealth #WhatWorks

1 in 4 teenagers turned to AI chatbots for mental health support- using it more than helplines or mental health websites. The third report in our Children, Violence and Vulnerability survey focuses on mental health and experiences of violence. 📚Report youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...

Would you entrust a child’s life to a chatbot? That’s what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff

The third report in our Children, Violence and Vulnerability survey looks at mental health & experiences of violence. 📊 1 in 4 teens have high mental health difficulties 🚶‍♂️ 39% change daily behaviour due to fear 💻 53% turn online/AI for help 🔗 youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...

“We’re shown so little of what healthy relationships look like.” Our Youth Advisory Board discussed why earlier, open discussions on boundaries and behaviour matter and how this can help young people recognise when something isn’t right. 🎥 Watch the discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILZ...

It’s important for young people to know their boundaries — and understand it’s okay to stand on them. In this discussion, our Youth Advisory Board talk about recognising toxic behaviour, trusted adults, and the need for education. 🎥 Watch the full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILZ...

“Violence against women and girls often starts in childhood.” — YEF blog by our VAWG Lead. Teen voices reveal the realities of abuse in teenage relationships. Read more: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/were-shown-s...