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Navigators help families chart way past domestic violence

High-risk families supported by a domestic abuse navigator.

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Doncaster Children's Services Trust has radically overhauled the way it supports children, young people and families affected by domestic abuse over the past five years.

The transformation has been mainly funded through £3.1m from the Department for Education's Children's Social Care Innovation programme, which enabled the trust to launch its Growing Futures project.

However, further change has also been achieved on a cultural level through the trust encouraging its local partners to adapt a whole-family approach to working with families.

The Growing Futures project, which marked its fourth year of taking cases in September 2018, was set up in response to a high incidence of domestic abuse in Doncaster.

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