The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has recently released a report on what works – and doesn’t work – in reducing violence in educational settings. The report looks at a range of everyday practices in schools, colleges and alternative provisions drawing on evidence on how to prevent children’s involvement in violence.
The report also looks at the evaluation the YEF have undertaken of violence prevention programmes that have been used in schools. Drawing on all the evidence, five recommendations are made to education settings, with the guidance that the recommendations are used within the localised context and with the unique place based knowledge from each setting.
These are: keeping children in education; providing children with trusted adults; developing children’s social and emotional skills; targeting efforts at places and times that violence occurs – so understanding the local context and having a co-ordinated safeguarding response, and finally being aware that in this setting there is the risk of actually having the opposite effect of causing more harm.
You can read the full report at:
https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/education-guidance/
The Violence and Vulnerability Unit are considering the recommendations and working with partner organisations to see how we can make sure the learning is incorporated into our local practice.