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Sector backs Longfield’s call for ‘Sure Start for teenagers’

Sector leaders have backed calls by former children’s commissioner for England Anne Longfield to create 1,000 community hubs dubbed ‘Sure Start for teenagers’ to support those more at risk from criminal exploitation.
The proposed hubs would provide support for young people at risk of exploitation. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock
The proposed hubs would provide support for young people at risk of exploitation. Picture: Monkey Business/Adobe Stock

The proposal is one of a series of recommendations put forward in Longfield’s final report for her Commission on Young Lives, which sets out a national action plan for government, councils, the police and schools to tackle what it calls “deep rooted” problems in support systems for children, young people and families.

Recommendations include the creation of 1,000 Sure Start Plus Hubs by 2027 as well as the recruitment of an “army” of 10,000 additional youth workers and a one-off mental health recovery programme.

Longfield’s report highlights that some of her recommendations echo those made in the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and says that they “should be implemented at pace”.

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