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Youth Endowment Fund to support violence reduction research

2 mins read Youth Justice Crime prevention Youth Work
More than £700,000 has been awarded by the Youth Endowment Fund to support research into keeping children safe from violence, it has been announced.
Mentoring programmes will be selected for the project. Picture: Adobe Stock
Mentoring programmes will be selected for the project. Picture: Adobe Stock

The money will be used to evaluate projects working with children and young people run by smaller organisations that often do not get to test their work using some of the most robust types of research such as randomised control trials (RCTs) because such evaluations only work when there are lots of children and young people taking part in a project.

In light of this, the funding will support groups of smaller organisations who are delivering the same activities to run something called a multi-site trial. The money will be used to focus on two approaches that are commonly used by grassroots organisations - hospital navigators, who help people who have been victims of a violent assault to access additional support, and mentoring, where relationships are built to support a mentee to achieve their goals.

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