The Home Office said projects operating in 11 local authorities had been chosen to receive a share of the Trusted Relationship Fund, which will support early intervention work with children and young people at risk of abuse or exploitation by criminal gangs.
The projects will support vulnerable children and young people by ensuring they have positive adult role models such as youth workers, police officers, nurses and other professionals.
Councils receiving a share of the funding include Barnet, Bradford, Ealing, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Hackney, Hounslow, Northampton Borough, North East Lincolnshire, North Somerset, North Yorkshire and York, and Rotherham.
The funding boost follows a Home-Office commissioned review by the Early Intervention Foundation, which found that a lack of trusted relationships was a consistently cited contributing factor in cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation.
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