The Early Intervention Youth Fund is intended to help youth workers prevent children and young people becoming involved in criminal activity, such as being drawn into "county lines" crime where gangs from urban areas exploit children to establish drug-dealing networks in rural areas.
It also funds projects working with young people who have already offended, to help divert them into positive life choices.
The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime in London received the largest amount of £4.2m to be shared between 10 projects. These include plans to establish a unit of three outreach workers to develop long-term relationships with young people across the three boroughs of Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham, and a targeted and integrated youth service led by young people in the London Borough of Southwark.
The London Borough of Camden has received funding to embed trained practitioners within police custody who can identify children at risk of serious youth violence and provide targeted early interventions to the child and their family.
Sussex will receive £890,616 to establish a network of coaches to work with at-risk young people referred to them by schools, health services, statutory partners and police. And Wales will receive £1,211,542 to create youth support intervention programmes and media campaigns.
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