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Children’s Minister announced £30m funding to help vulnerable youngsters (12 July 2017)

Date: 12/07/2017
Duncan Lewis, Child Care Solicitors, Children’s Minister announced £30m funding to help vulnerable youngsters

Minister for Children and Families Robert Goodwill has announced funding for 24 projects as part of the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme.

The announcement on Thursday, 6 July involves a multi-million pound funding package to improve the lives of vulnerable children and young people around the country.

The projects are part of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme, which is backed by £200m of government funding.

This programme has supported 95 projects to date, providing evidence of best practice that is helping to improve children’s services across the country.

In his speech at the ADCS annual conference, Robert Goodwill said:

“Through the Innovation Programme, we continue to fund exciting and pioneering projects that look to shake up our traditional approach to social work – together they proffer a broad and balanced portfolio, which both test new innovations and scale and spread those that have been successful in Round One of the programme.”

The projects that have been awarded funding include Credo Care, Derby City Council, The Adolescent and Children’s Trust, Munro, Turnell & Murphy, and Barnardo’s.

Credo Care’s project – working with Hertfordshire and Staffordshire – aims to find specialist foster placements close to home for young disabled people currently living in out-of-area residential care.

Mr Goodwill will further commented:

“This new type of foster caring will focus on young people with the most complex needs,”

Director of Credo Care, Roy Hipkiss, added:

“Credo Care is delighted to be included in the Innovation programme – and we look forward to contributing to successful outcomes for disabled young people.

“The Specialist Foster Care Placement Project will provide foster care placements for disabled children and young people in residential care – and in doing so will change their trajectories into adulthood.

“The personal care offered in the foster placements will improve the quality of their lives immediately, while developing the self-care skills and supportive networks that are so difficult to provide within their residential placements.”


Another grant will go to Barnardo’s, to maintain and expand the role of the National Female Genital Mutilation Centre (NFGMC). The centre was launched in 2015 alongside the Local Government Association.

Director of the National FGM Centre, Michelle Lee-Izu, said:

“Barnardo’s and the Local Government Association are delighted the government has given the National FGM Centre further funding to help wipe out this hidden form of child abuse by 2030.

“It will enable us to extend the reach and remit of the centre’s vital work and support more girls and families in areas of both high and low prevalence of female genital mutilation.

“Since working with some local authorities that claimed to rarely come across cases of FGM, we have been supporting 198 families in these areas – which clearly demonstrates how much the FGM Centre is needed.

“It also shows how much more we need to do in terms of training professionals to identify girls at risk and report cases of concern.

“The funding will also allow us to extend our work to other harmful traditional practices such as breast ironing and flattening.”


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