The Home Office is providing £860,000 in 2020/21 for the service to be run by St Giles Trust, a charity that has led the way in providing specialist support for young people and their families affected by county lines activity.
The money pledged is part of a wider £25m investment by the government to tackle county lines gangs, a form of organised crime where vulnerable young people are coerced to transporting and selling drugs in towns across the UK.
The funding will pay for the continuation of the service in London and enable it to be expanded into Merseyside and the West Midlands to address “substantial” unmet need for more support, the trust said.
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