The Crossover Programme was set to offer grants to voluntary and community organisations working with children leaving custody, helping them to offer additional resettlement support for children in the months leading to their release and after they have returned to their communities.
Under the programme, voluntary and community sector organisations that succeeded in their bids would have received funding to employ "resettlement linkworkers" to provide one-to-one support for children. This support would have begun at least three months prior to the child’s release, and continued for at least three months after leaving custody.
The programme opened for bids in October last year but the government pulled the funding in January, CYP Now has learnt.
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