Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity
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Sectors
- Youth Sector
- Including Positive Activities, such as sports, music and employment programmes that aim to develop positive behaviours and provide a ‘hook’ to other support and services that help children to build trusted relationships with nonfamily members, such as key workers or youth workers, to reduce children’s involvement in crime and violence.
- Children’s Services
- Interventions and services which help families deal with challenging situations, including parenting programmes, family therapy, domestic abuse interventions, family support and support for children at risk outside the home.
- Youth Justice
- How they support and respond to arrested children, including activities to divert children from formal criminal justice processes, knife crime education, trauma-informed programmes and restorative justice.
- Policing
- Violence prevention strategies that involve the police and focus on the individuals most likely to be involved in serious violence.
- Neighbourhoods
- Place-based interventions that can help neighbourhoods and communities deal with local violence and reduce young people’s involvement in crime and violence.
- Health
- Therapeutic support to help children deal with challenges and protect them from becoming involved in violence.
- Education
- Activities targeted at outcomes associated with offending such as improving school attendance, preventing unnecessary exclusions and helping children to get the most out of school.
Duration
- They expect the maximum project delivery time required to reach the necessary number of children and young people for an impact evaluation to be 24 months
What they’ll invest in?
- They aim to identify projects which are ready for an impact evaluation with an experimental design (i.e. randomised control trial) or a quasi-experimental design.
- They are interested in proposals from both:
- Delivery organisations currently delivering an evaluable project, service or intervention
- Partnerships between delivery organisations and YEF Evaluator panel members. In these cases, the delivery organisation should apply as the lead organisation. Note that proposed Evaluators must be independent of the delivery organisation. Commissioning of a delivery organisation will not necessarily result in commissioning of the proposed evaluation partner; this will be assessed separately.
Who they’re looking to support?
- They aim to support children and young people aged primarily aged 10 – 18, who are at risk of crime or violence and/or already involved in the youth justice system. Children and young people outside this age range may be included, but should not be the primary focus.
- Programmes aimed at children and young people who are at risk of involvement in youth offending are commonly referred to as secondary prevention. In this guidance, you’ll see it referred to as ‘secondary level’.
- Programmes aimed at children and young people who have already been affected by, and involved in, violence, offending and/or exploitation are commonly referred to as tertiary prevention.
Eligibility Criteria
- Location: your project must be delivered in England and/or Wales.
- Your organisation: your organisation must be a registered charity, company, statutory body or CIC.
- Activities: projects must fit within one of the YEF Sectors.
- Children and young people aged 10-18: projects must be supporting children and children and young people.
- Outcomes: They’re primarily interested in projects that are focussed on reducing offending outcomes. There are additional outcomes that they’re also able to support.
- Scale: you must be able to reach enough participants to support a robust and meaningful evaluation. They estimate this to be at least 100 children and young people per year, but it will vary depending on the nature of the work.
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