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In 2014, North Yorkshire Council's children's home staff were expanding their skills through outreach work, helping vulnerable adolescents build the self-esteem, resilience and relationships needed to remain safely at home or return home from care.
The opportunity to build on this preventative and restorative approach arose from a double catalyst: the need to close one of the authority's three children's homes due to austerity measures, and a funding opportunity through the Department for Education's Children's Social Care Innovation Programme. No Wrong Door group manager Janice Nicholson says building relationships lay at the heart of the initiative. "We knew we could keep young people at home and that by developing self-esteem, you have more chance of getting them into education and employment," she says.
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