Goals: To help young people with disabilities into education or employment
Funding: 100,000 a year for two years, from the European Social Fund through the Learning and Skills Council Tees Valley
Despite admitting to being a little nervous about a job interview, Margaret is keen to praise the Shaw Trust Teesside's Back on Track project. "I've been working on the computers, and we've been doing lots of things," says the 16-year-old from Middlesbrough. "It's been brilliant."
Margaret is one of the first cohort of five young people to work with Back on Track, which opened in November last year in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees. The project works with 16- to 18-year-olds who have physical or learning difficulties, or mental health problems, to get them into work or education.
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