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Testing for impact grant

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

| CYP Now

The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has launched its latest grant round to test the effectiveness of different approaches to preventing young people becoming involved in crime and violence.

How I Got Here: Juliette Greenwich, Engage programme youth worker

Best Practice

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

| CYP Now

Juliette Greenwich, Engage programme youth worker at London VRU, on some of the milestones in her career journey to date.

Trust is the missing element in tackling youth violence

Opinion

Thursday, April 20, 2023

| CYP Now

March 2023 saw the number of people killed with a knife in England and Wales reach its highest level since records began more than 76 years ago.

Questions over police use of knife images

Analysis

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

| CYP Now

Evidence suggests images of knives to "scare" young people from carrying weapons don't work, and may exacerbate the problem.

Intensive support scheme diverts Manchester young people at risk from gangs

Best Practice

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| CYP Now

Practitioners use relational and trauma-informed practice with young people sharing on their own terms.

Concern over increase in county lines grooming during pandemic

News

Thursday, December 16, 2021

| CYP Now

Almost half of parents and carers say the risk of children being exploited by drug gangs in their local area has increased during the pandemic, according to The Children’s Society.

DfE school attendance scheme targets youth violence ‘hotspots’

News

Friday, December 3, 2021

| CYP Now

The Department for Education has named 10 areas with high levels of youth violence to benefit from a £30m scheme to reduce truancy and exclusion rates in schools.

Youth workers in emergency departments 'reduce youth violence'

News

Thursday, December 2, 2021

| CYP Now

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

Youth work diversion role lauded

Analysis

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

| CYP Now

Experts hail youth workers’ skills in tackling violence and call for funding to create ‘trusted relationships’.

We need wide debate on use of weapons detectors

Opinion

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Safety of public servants is very much in the spotlight following the tragic killing of David Amess MP.

The price of tighter security

Analysis

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

There are arguments for and against the use of weapons detection systems, say youth justice groups.

Tackling Youth Violence: Special Report

Features

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Despite a recent fall in knife-related assaults, there are fears the pandemic has fuelled the factors that give rise to youth violence, prompting fresh calls for action to divert young people from harm.

Youth work stops online aggression becoming real violence

Best Practice

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Youth charities train practitioners to recognise risk factors posed by social media around violence.

Charity uses lived experience to divert young offenders

Other

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

St Giles offers direct, intensive help for young people caught up in criminal exploitation with issues around weapons crime, serious violence and county lines.

FoI probe reveals reluctance of YOTs to use weapons detectors

Features

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

CYP Now investigation shows just 30 per cent of councils have weapons detectors in premises used by youth offending teams despite a review calling for such measures after the murder of a young person at a setting.

Tackling youth violence: policy context

Other

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

A survey of local directors of public health by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner (OCC) for England assessed local responses to youth violence and gangs.

Youth offending service policies

Analysis

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Youth offending teams use a range of approaches governing the searching of young people for weapons.

Tackling youth violence: research evidence

Research

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Peter Henderson, the Youth Endowment Fund’s head of toolkit, on why the organisation has created a resource summarising the best research on different approaches to preventing serious youth violence.

Violence reduction units tackle the causes of youth violence

Other

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

| CYP Now

Evidence tells us a child first approach is effective in addressing the offending behaviour of the small number of children within the youth justice system, and in preventing offending by those who are more likely to enter it.