CYP Now - Letters: Partnerships key to funding

"How to Protect Your Funding" (CYP Now, 26 November-2 December) contained some helpful advice on sustaining and attracting new funding. But rather than "weathering the storm", children and youth projects should be looking strategically at how they can diversify and work in partnership with complimentary community services to contribute towards targets across a broader range of local priorities.

Partnering with the police force on youth justice projects or the local primary care trust to reach ambitious health targets avoids duplication of effort, achieves efficiency savings and provides families with better, more accessible services.

I hope that, rather than desperately clinging onto historic revenue streams, more strategic leaders will step outside the sector and explore new partnerships.

- Anne Longfield, chief executive, 4Children

Violence strategy not enough

The government's new strategy for tackling violence against women and girls really just brings together many existing ideas and plans with a few new bells and whistles.

That is all well and good but what we need to stop violence against women and girls is more action and more resources. Campaigns to prevent these crimes are important, but curriculum changes in 2011 won't help today's victims.

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