Colorful lines representing social issues like mental illness, addiction, racism, poverty, school exclusion, domestic violence, and exploitation are intertwined against a black background. "Shift" and "Doing whatever it takes" are written at the bottom.

SHiFT EXISTS TO BREAK THE DESTRUCTIVE CYCLE OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CAUGHT UP IN, OR AT RISK OF, CRIME.

SHiFT is scaling high impact ‘insider-outsider’ Practices, in partnership with public service that share our determination for systems change.

227 children reached.

41% reduction in convictions.

Every £1 spent on SHiFT saves £8 over 5 years and £33 over 20 years.

SHiFT does whatever it takes to set children and young people up for safe and bright futures.

“‘If I didn’t get introduced to SHiFT, I would have been arrested by now. Yeah, I would have been arrested by now I know that for a fact. I would have been arrested or dead. I wouldn’t have stopped. I would have just carried on and got further involved with it.’ ”
— Young person

BREAKING CYCLES

At the heart of everything we are and everything we do is ‘Breaking Cycles’ - the dynamic and evidenced approach to enabling change, created and pioneered by one of SHiFT’s Founders, Sophie Humphreys OBE.

Sophie Humphreys. She is a highly experienced independent advisor on child protection and safeguarding, providing expertise to central government and local authorities. Creator of the Breaking Cycles Model.