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News archive - June/July 2009Joining up services and funding streams £200M HAS BEEN allocated for 101 projects across England that bring together children and family’s services on single sites - from education and health to housing, play facilities and careers advice. The Co-location Fund, which was announced as part of The Children’s Plan: One Year On report in December and which is managed by Partnerships for Schools (PfS), is backing a wide range of projects, by providing between £50,000 to £10m to help deliver joined-up facilities. Projects include children’s centres; careers advice; youth clubs; health services, including mental health, drug and alcohol treatment centres; family support services; Combined Cadet Force facilities; and independent housing for young people leaving care to help their transition into longer-term, more permanent accommodation. Children’s secretary Ed Balls, commented: “It is not down to teachers to deal with problems on their own - but it is essential that they can easily tap into services to give young people, families and local people the help they need, when they need it. Schools do not exist in isolation to the rest of their communities. Many schools already join up work with public, voluntary and private sector services and organisations - that should be the norm in every single school.” Examples include a £3.2m project in Leicester, where eight ‘integrated service hubs’ are to be located in and around schools and other existing community services delivery points across the city; and, in a £10m scheme in Westminster, Malborough Hill Campus will deliver co-located community services including education, children’s services, children and family-based NHS, plus youth services. « |
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