PROJECT
Scarpa (Safeguarding Children At Risk – Prevention and Action)
PURPOSE
To help 10- to 18-year-olds escape and avoid sexual exploitation and stop going missing
FUNDING
Around £460,000 a year. The project was awarded £700,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Reaching Communities fund over three years until December 2016. Other key sources of funding include Ballinger Charitable Trust, Northern Rock Foundation and council fees
BACKGROUND
In 2006, The Children’s Society appointed a development worker to establish a Newcastle-based service for young people going missing after research identified a growing problem. Scarpa was launched at Brunswick Methodist Church in the city centre in November 2007, in partnership with Barnardo’s, which remained involved until 2010. The scheme now operates in Newcastle, North and South Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland and Northumberland.
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