A Department for Education and Skills guide Targeted youth support, published today (4 April), says youth work is key to identifying young people in need and gaining their trust.
The document, based on the experiences of 14 targeted youth support pathfinders, places a strong emphasis on partnership between agencies to deliver effective targeted support.
These should include the full range of services for young people, from mainstream services to more specialist agencies.
The guidance does not set out a firm framework for how targeted youth support services should be constructed, but does outline principles that should be applied. These include the presence of a senior level sponsor for the work within the children's trust, and creating a plan for the reform of targeted support embedded within the children and young people's plan.
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