PROJECT
Risk-Avert
FUNDING
Essex County Council invests around £100,000 a year in Risk-Avert. The scheme costs authorities or schools outside Essex around £2,000 per school in the first year, for resources and training for up to 25 staff
BACKGROUND
Essex County Council was keen to find a school-based approach that really worked when it came to steering young people away from harmful behaviour such as drinking and taking drugs. There was little evidence of change from programmes that relied on "telling young people something was bad in the hope that they wouldn't do it", explains Ben Hughes, the council's head of commissioning for public health and wellbeing.
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