Project
Risk Management Group
Purpose
To ensure co-ordinated support for adolescents at risk of harm or death
Funding
No additional funding was used to set up the group, with the main "cost" being officer time. The group gained a £400,000 Local Innovation Award to share its approach with other local authorities
Background
A range of factors lay behind a new approach to safeguarding vulnerable adolescents in Northumberland, including the death of a looked-after young person in 2007 as a result of substance misuse. "As part of the management review after that death it was recognised there was a small group of adolescents who the child protection system didn't neatly fit because the risks they were exposed to were a result of their own behaviour," says Mark Douglas, head of social care at Northumberland County Council. Other issues included high use of secure accommodation for at-risk young people.
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