More than 20 projects have now received money from the Department for Education's £100m Children's Social Care Innovation Fund to set up new ways of tackling social problems affecting children and young people.
Last month, the DfE announced four initiatives, totalling more than £9m, would be focusing on developing services to support children and young people with mental health problems.
CYP Now looks in detail at the plans for each.
Action For Children (£3.3m)
National charity Action for Children is to set up a specialist counselling support service across three London boroughs for young people who are at risk of being taken into care as a result of their risky or troubled behaviour.
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