Project
Volunteers Supporting Families
Purpose
To reduce the number of at-risk children taken into care by providing support to families
Funding
A typical local authority scheme costs £65,000 a year for a project manager supporting at least 25 volunteers
Background
Lord Laming's 2003 inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie stated that child protection was best achieved by statutory services working together with community groups including charities.
Community Service Volunteers (CSV) was keen to explore the role volunteers could play in safeguarding, and piloted its Volunteers in Child Protection project in Bromley and Sunderland the following year.
"We thought it shouldn't just be social workers that keep children safe," recalls CSV's business development manager, Jill Williams. "This was something no other charities were doing at the time."
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