The Plings pilot programme was created in 2009 after the then Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) asked social research co-operative Substance to look at how information for teenagers could be gathered and shared through a single platform online. Twenty local authorities in England took part in the DCSF-funded pilot project, which is due to end in September 2010.
Substance is currently finalising a three-year funding strategy to continue Plings beyond September. This will involve developing service-level agreements with individual local authorities as well as with the commercial sector. Details of the new funding arrangements will be circulated to all local authorities in September.
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