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To provide intensive support to 175 children and young people who have experienced issues relating to domestic violence and parental substance misuse. Working with 58 families who deal with issues of domestic violence and substance misuse and working with perpetrators. Training 150 professionals who work with children in the educational, social care, health and policing sectors. The project will cover the county of Dorset.

The project will address the issue of domestic abuse, drugs and alcohol misuse through delivery of a project aimed at fathers in low-income families. To target fathers with young children aged between 0 and 11 years old to improve their involvement in parenting and family life and crucially to help prevent key factors implicated in abuse. The project will be based in Shepway, Kent.

To develop a youth-worker-led group work programmes for schools and community groups where unhealthy relationships, low-level child sexual exploitation, gang activity, negative peer groups, and domestic abuse has been identified as an issue. These will be evidence-based programmes which use resilience-based methodology to change attitudes and behaviours. The project will be targeted in Sheffield.

Delivery of an intervention to high-risk families in which domestic violence is a persistent factor, to improving overall workforce skills to increase effectiveness in safeguarding children and young people. Working with up to 30 families, training up to 90 front-line practitioners and advanced training of up to 8 qualified clinicians in the delivery of a mentalisation-based treatment intervention for parents and couples where violence and abuse dominates family life. Project based in London.

The project will equip young people with a better understanding and ability to discuss radicalisation. It will support secondary schools to embed preventing radicalisation and extremism into their safeguarding policies and discuss these in the community. Targeted at year 9 schoolchildren, and to train teachers in this approach (complementing prevent training) and assist those teachers as they run their own sessions with pupils. It will be targeted at schools in prevent tier 1 boroughs in London.

To raise the capacity of education professionals and community leaders to identify and address indications of potential radicalisation of young people, as well as making young people aware of the risks. To be delivered through training pupils in over 50 schools in Walsall, training around 350 education professionals, and a number of other events.

Based in Lancashire, the project will upskill 30 diverse young leaders, to work with project staff to involve a wide range of young people, their parents’ and communities’ voices and experiences to identify; how vulnerable young people feel in relation to being groomed and recruited into radicalised activity; what skills and information would help them divert from and resist these recruitment activities; and how schools, parents and wider communities can best identify and protect young people. A range of products and materials will be developed for local and national dissemination.  

To safeguard girls from FGM, through raising the engagement of relevant communities with statutory services, and increasing the capacity of professionals in statutory services to work effectively with members of affected communities (5 London boroughs and 2 other areas).

To safeguard girls and young women from gender-based violence, particularly FGM and forced marriage, through engagement with schools, raising the awareness of professionals in relevant sectors, and strengthening both multi-agency collaboration and community engagement (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Bristol).