Safe Families
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
Volunteer support for families – step down from FS direct work
Turnaround Project 2022-2025
Funded by Ministry of Justice
Voluntary youth early intervention programme to enable Youth Justice Services (YJS’s) across England and Wales to support children on the cusp of the justice system and prevent them from going on to offend. This funding allows the Youth Justice Service to reach vulnerable young people in the borough at risk of offending and divert them away from youth justice at the earliest opportunity, achieving positive outcomes for children.
Your Choice
Funded by Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund
Your Choice aims to reduce involvement in violence through high intensity cognitive behaviour therapeutic intervention. Your Choice involves the training and supervision of a group of practitioners to deliver an intensive goal orientated programme with young people aged 11-19 (up to 19th birthday) who fall within the medium to high risk of harm outside the home either as a victim and or as a perpetrator.
Detached Outreach Project
Funded by Violence Reduction Unit uplift + Harrow Club
Harrow Club deliver projects incorporating a detached outreach service, mentoring and late night safe-space programmes that works with young people who are at risk of significant harm. The aim is to engage young people, aged 14-21+, who are at a high risk of, or currently are, involved in criminality and high-risk behaviour. A detached youth-work model is delivered whereby workers and trained community volunteers engage with young people on the streets late at night and bring them back to the club for free food and fun and interesting/developmental activities.
Rebel Records Music Project
Funded by Violence Reduction Unit Capacity Building Grant/ Serious Violence Duty
Rebel Records are an independent recording studio and record label based in Parsons Green, Fulham. Rebel’s team provide access to the studio for the project to learn music production, writing skills and the next stages of releasing music into the music scene.
White City Young People/Adult Projects
Funded by Violence Reduction Unit Capacity Building Grant 23/24
Funding provided by the Violence Reduction Unit request that projects are delivered to promote stronger trust and collaboration between the local communities and agencies, increased sustainability of community networks, that have shared commitment to, understanding of, and vision for reducing violence. The funding provides for, amongst other initiatives weekly parent / carer network meetings, late night project for young people and a residential for young people in half term.
The Lyric Theatre Project
Funded by Violence Reduction Unit Uplift Grant/ S106
The Lyric Theatre are to develop a touring theatre production based on the themes of the Gangs, Violence, Exploitation, County Lines and Serious Youth Violence. This project is designed to educate young people to serve as an intervention to keep themselves and their families safe and support in the reduction of future crime within the borough. The project aims to be staged at primary/ secondary schools, youth clubs and pupil referral units within the borough.
Family Hubs
Funded by Family Hubs Transformation Fund: Department of Education
Family Hubs will be launched in March 2024 in H&F. Family Hubs offer a platform to work together as a partnership to support children and young people through positive intervention, from pre-birth to adulthood. They are a single point of access to help families navigate and receive the support they need when they need it. A Family Hub should function across a spectrum, from a place to meet and offer drop-in activities, finding out more information about the support available in their local area, and routine appointments, to crisis support. Family Hubs are more than just a building. The principle of a Family Hub model focuses on improving the join up between local partners, planning and delivering services in a place-based way.
Our Youth Justice Services and our Gangs Violence and Exploitation Unit are a part of the family hub model. The IDVA service as well as our Sexual Health service is also linked into the family hub. Training is being provided for our Family Hub staff on the topic of Youth Violence and Domestic Abuse.
Round Midnight
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
Virtual decisions VR education programme. Early intervention for CYP at risk of criminal exploitation
ASE – FS Framework
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
Mentoring alongside/after FS practitioner work. Targeted at CYP at risk of crime, worklessness, homelessness +
ASE’s I- MPOWER Mentoring Programme -offers tailored, holistic, early help intervention for disadvantaged children, young people and families. They also offer a Parent/Carer Champion network, which provides additional support and knowledge for parents and carers with young people at risk of youth violence and exploitation. Providing mentoring and counselling support to vulnerable young people including transition support and support in PRUs.
West London NHS Trust – Forensic Child and Adolescent Health Services
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
West London NHS Trust - Youth Justice Liaison and Diversion (YJLD)
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
This service ensures that the specialist needs of children and young people in custody or youth justice setting are met promptly. Issues relating to consent, capacity and legislation must be considered, as well as a range of clinical, safety and safeguarding risks.
West London NHS Trust - Liaison and Diversion Service (L&DS)
Funded by Children’s Services Early Help
The liaison and diversion service provides specialist mental health assessment for people with vulnerabilities, including mental health concerns, who are in the criminal justice system. This means the person might be in court or a police station, or with a youth offending team (YOT). The team of specialist nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and doctors provide care for adults and children who need support during what can be a very stressful experience
Inclusion and nurturing schools programme
Funded by Violence Reduction Unit
Preventing Social exclusion and healthy relationships. The programme aims to keep children safe, supported, and thriving in school, tackle exclusions, and ensure children and young people have healthy relationship behaviours and attitudes. The programme will last for a period of 3 years to offer an intensive support to schools with two strands: Nurturing perspective, to look at inclusion to maintain high levels of school attendance and positive sense of belonging with a long-term aim to minimise exclusion and Healthy relationships, including how to support those who are challenged by this from a whole school perspective. The INS will also focus on decolonising the curriculum and support schools in taking anti-racist approach.
This programme has been rolled out by Family Support to 10 schools from April 2023.