Central government has an absolute duty to work with social entrepreneurs to support innovation that is relevant to today's young people. This includes, from time to time, taking risks and not continually supporting and funding more of the same.
We need to stop poorly thought-out, multiple interventions that cause confusion rather than clarity for young people, their families and the professionals who work with them. And we need to step up work to improve the analysis of which services actually do engage hard-to-reach young people.
Many young people are not connected with adults in their communities, or with the interventions created for them. These have become so prescribed and formulaic that they limit development of the creative relationships that lead to change. Furthermore, given the nature of the interventions, they simply serve to reinforce young people's feelings of failure. Such young people believe themselves to be intrinsically "bad", and being referred to a social worker simply proves this.
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