Youth workers in Hounslow have been knocking on doors as part of a drive to reduce the number of young people not in education, training and employment and training (Neet).
Project 17 was launched in September 2008 to tackle youth unemployment in the London borough and is an example of local practice validated by C4EO.
Crucially, the scheme, funded via Connexions and delivered by Hounslow's youth service, aimed to reduce the number of 17-year-olds whose status was simply "unknown".
A five-strong team of part-time workers are supplied with a regularly updated listed of Neets and "unknowns" by Connexions.
They then make contact, visiting the young people's homes to offer support.
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