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- 11th Apr 2024
Could summer jobs stop youth violence?
In many American cities, Summer Youth Employment Programs offer young people from disadvantaged backgrounds short-term paid employment during the long summer break from school. Some of these programmes have been in existence for decades and operate at a huge scale. Given the evidence from the US on violent youth offending,…
- Blog
- 6th Feb 2024
Social media and youth violence: Acknowledging the complexity
In a guest blog for the Ending Youth Violence Lab authors of Against Youth Violence: A Social Harm Perspective Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers discuss the need for a comprehensive and nuanced examination of the link between social media and youth violence. This blog, published on Safer Internet Day, sets…
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Inés Sanguino
Inés is an Advisor in the Home Affairs, Security and Education Team. Prior to joining BIT, Inés worked at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. At the OECD, she supported countries in the implementation of education policies and collaborated on a project related to foreign language…
- Blog
- 26th Jan 2024
From Statistics to Solutions: The Urgency of Youth Violence Prevention
On Thursday the Youth Justice Board (YJB) released its annual youth justice statistics. There are some positives to take from this data, most notably the fall in the average number of children in custody at any one time, which at 440 is the lowest number on record. Meanwhile the number…
- EYV Lab project
Summer Jobs
Supporting young people with employment opportunities
- Blog
- 19th Dec 2023
From Vision to Validation: Khulisa's Journey with The Ending Youth Violence Lab
In its April 2023 launch event, The Ending Youth Violence Lab (at the Behavioural Insights Team) unveiled its two inaugural research projects. We were delighted to be one of two charities selected to receive the Lab’s transformative support in evaluating our work. For us, the partnership marked a significant milestone…
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Clare Tanton
Clare is a Senior Evaluation Manager in the Home Affairs, Security and Education team. Prior to joining BIT Clare worked at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where she worked on the development and evaluation of school-based interventions to reduce violence and to improve menstrual health and hygiene.…
- EYV Lab project
STOP
Preventing dating, relationship, and gender-based violence
- EYV Lab project
Face It
Supporting young people at risk of exclusion
- EYV Lab project
GenPMTO
Working with parents to support the use of positive parenting strategies at home