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Analysis by Impower Consulting in 2014 suggested that with the right intervention and support, the number of looked-after young people in Ealing could reduce by up to 30 per cent. The west London authority also wanted to reduce the 50 per cent proportion of looked-after children in out-of-borough care by building the skills of foster carers and staff's capacity to support them.
So after bidding in November 2014, the council won £3.5m from the Department for Education's Children's Social Care Innovation Programme to trial a new model of working with adolescents in and on the edge of care, developed in partnership with Impower, social business Catch 22, Ealing Clinical Commissioning Group and West London Mental Health NHS Trust.
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