The Youth Endowment Fund’s annual Children, Violence and Vulnerability report takes a unique look into teenage children’s experiences of violence – in person and online.
This research was conducted to help better understand how violence – in its many forms – impacts what children think, feel and do. We hope the richness of this data provides valuable insights for all those working to keep children and communities safe.
For this year’s report, we’ve trebled the sample size – surveying over 7,500 children aged 13 to 17-years-old in England and Wales – and have included results from a separate survey of 3,000 adults so that we could compare their views. All results are adjusted to ensure they’re nationally representative.
This year we’ve also delved deeper, asking new questions about why children commit violence, the spread of violence on different social media platforms and violence against women and girls online. Alongside this, we’ve interviewed members of our Youth Advisory Board (YAB) to understand how our results compare to their lived experiences.
