It's a commonplace scene; two women and a small child are taking a walkin the local council gardens. But the two women aren't related, or evenfriends in the normal sense of the word, and the little boy is onBromley's child protection register. One of the women is the boy'smother, the other is a volunteer. "It sounds like nothing much, just atrip to the park, but it was the first time the mother started to openup to me," she says.
Pushing frontiers
The volunteer is Zoe, a 30-year-old actress and mother of four boys, andshe is taking part in an innovative scheme that is pushing the frontiersof volunteering. The Volunteers in Child Protection project is run bythe charity Community Service Volunteers, which is working with Bromleyand Sunderland councils to match carefully chosen, trained volunteerswith families where the children are on the child protection register ordeemed to be at risk of abuse or neglect.
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