Goals: To support young runaways
Funding: 697,000 over three years. About 525,000 came from the Department for Education and Skills and the remainder from the local authority
Since the Talk... Don't Walk project was set up in Warrington four years ago there has been a 76 per cent reduction in the number of young people running away from home in the area, from 1,235 incidents in 2003, to 297 in 2006.
Warrington-based charity The Relationships Centre has been running the scheme as a three-year pilot, which has just come to an end, although Warrington Council has agreed to fund it for another 12 months.
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