CYP Now - Youth workers in emergency departments 'reduce youth violence'

Schemes that place youth workers in hospital A&E departments show “real promise” in keeping children safe from involvement in violence, researchers have said.

Redthread embeds youth work teams in A&E departments. Picture: Redthread

The Youth Endowment Foundation (YEF) has added evidence about A&E navigator programmes, including Redthread’s flagship initiative that embeds youth work teams in 13 hospitals across London, Nottinghamshire and Birmingham and a project with Thames Valley Police’s Violence Reduction Unit, to fund and evaluate voluntary sector organisations to deliver navigator interventions across five hospitals, to its online toolkit.

The toolkit is a free resource that summarises research on what works to reduce youth violence.

The latest study indicates such projects “might make a real difference to the children most vulnerable to violence” but adds that more research is needed “to be really confident in that assessment”.

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