At its base were the majority of young people, unlikely to need much beyond mainstream services. In the middle, there was a population of young people who might well require additional support and advice from Connexions personal advisers, but who were unlikely to need access to more specialist services. At the top, a relatively small proportion of young people would be in need of those specialist services.
Though we can get preoccupied with young people with multiple needs (the top of the triangle), they are usually in contact with one set of public services or another. The challenge is to make sure that they do not get stuck within the orbit of one particular service that may in fact be less appropriate than another.
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