The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) was established in March 2019 by children’s charity Impetus, with a £200m endowment and 10-year mandate from the Home Office to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. It does this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
YEF uses a toolkit to analyse existing research to assess the effectiveness of interventions. The toolkit has found sports programmes are associated with a high average impact on reducing serious youth violence and crime but there are major gaps in the evidence, particularly relating to robust evaluations conducted in England.
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