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When I think of young people and violence, my mind often goes to the most tragic situations. And a report launched Monday by the Youth Endowment Fund shows that we’re not wrong to worry about the worst.

Through a nationally representative survey of over 2,000 children living in England and Wales, 14 per cent of teen-aged children told us that they’ve been the victim of violence in the past 12 months. And almost two in five children (39 per cent) said they’d been directly affected by violence, either as a victim or witness. This is as much a part of children’s online lives too; over half of children told us they’d seen violence on social media, with almost a quarter exposed to content that involves other young people carrying or promoting the use of weapons like knives.

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