funding

The government has hinted at a new round of sanctions and perks for services and practitioners working with children, based on their readiness to intervene earlier and to work with the most challenging families.

Responding to evidence from voluntary and statutory agencies to a policy review of children and young people, the Treasury has promised to consider what can be done to "incentivise" providers to use their resources to help children and parents at the earliest possible opportunity and to "incentivise" workers to engage with families who are difficult to work with.

Connexions have  allocated £300,000 in 2007-8 to voluntary and community sector projects that explicitly target young people not in education, employment or training (NEET).

This will be split into two separate streams -  £250,000 will be available for projects and £50,000 will fund £1000 grants at local level.Each local authority area will receive an allocation – see attached paper for details.Timetable -