The Latest Breaking News from the Youth Endowment Fund

The London children trapped in Britain’s £500m County Lines drug trade

Organised gangs are forcing children into violent slavery on an industrial scale, yet the warning signs are often missed by schools, police and social care, reports Hannah Wallace

Evening Standard · Sep 13

One in nine teens are approached to sell drugs - and a quarter of them go through with it

Thousands of teenagers are being targeted and lured into criminal activities such as storing weapons, drugs or money, new research has found

The Independent UK · Dec 17, 2025

Wednesday briefing: Why is AI becoming the go-to support for our children’s mental health?

In today’s newsletter: Chatbots are becoming confidants for young people in distress​ – raising urgent questions about safeguarding, regulation and the limits of synthetic empathy

The Guardian - UK · Dec 10, 2025

Violence on social media making teenagers afraid to go out, study finds

Quarter of teens who see violence online are being served clips via algorithms, survey in England and Wales finds

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024

The UK’s racist mobs horrified us all – but we can’t just imprison our way out of this mess

Now the fires are out, we must take stock. There are no easy solutions to extremism, but there are some clear places to start, says Ciaran Thapar of the Youth Endowment Fund

The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2024

Show Respect: £368,000 boost for Standard's campaign to halt violence against women and girls

The Youth Endowment Fund backs our initiative with £368,000, taking the total committed to £868,000

Evening Standard · Jun 5, 2024

Show some respect: Standard launches campaign with £500k to tackle sexist abuse in schools

Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund will kickstart workshops to educate 13 and 14-year-old inner city pupils about healthy relationships

Evening Standard · Jun 3, 2024

Two thirds of teachers say pupils assaulted each other in school in last term

43% of teachers said a child had physically assaulted a teacher or another staff member

Evening Standard · May 20, 2024

Quarter of London teenagers 'have been victims of violence'

Charity survey finds violence is rife among teenagers in the capital

Evening Standard · Nov 13, 2023

Third of teenagers have seen real-life violence on TikTok, research suggests

A total of 7,500 teenagers were surveyed for Home Office-backed charity the Youth Endowment Fund

The Independent UK · Nov 13, 2023