In every place, we listen. Our place-based approach involves partnerships within communities to co-design programmes of support, reflecting the local context.
Our communities help design our personalised Impact Programmes, working across all parts of a young person’s life, prioritising where they need the most urgent support.
We use a data-driven approach to proactively identify children who need our support. Using attendance and survey data, we work with schools to recognise children and young people most at risk of social, emotional and academic outcomes.
Trust is at the heart of what we do. In a world where almost half of young people feel that they don’t have an adult to talk to, our in-school Link Workers build direct, trusted relationships with each child, family and school and are a springboard for further trusted relationships.
Joining up the system helps everyone. Voluntary organisations learn from each other, pressure is reduced for local authorities and families get the support they need.
Our Link Workers navigate the fragmented services and opportunities that are available to bridge silos, making the most of what already exists in communities.
We use a collective funding model and social outcomes contracts to combine funding from Local Authorities, schools, government and philanthropy.
Together, more support can be provided than from any one organisation on their own. Responsibility is shared, while costs are kept low for schools and local councils.
We care about the impact we have, not how many sessions or workshops happen over our programmes. We focus on real, measurable improvements happen in children's lives, such as better mental health or improved school attendance.
We're shifting the focus to what actually works. Instead of just funding a programme, we're funded on our outcomes - meaning we can be flexible to each place, school and child we work with.
Since 2010, spending on early intervention has decreased by over 45%.
While funding for late intervention such as youth justice, acute mental health and child protection has increased by 47%.
The cost to society of a school exclusion can be as much as £220,000.
Only 1 in 10 permanently excluded students pass GCSE maths and English.
of the children and young people on our Impact Programme complete it and remain in school.
Our Impact Programme has been independently proven to achieve £36,000 of direct cost savings per child to schools and Local Authorities.
Plus, an additional £85,000 in lifetime economic value, due to increased workforce participation and reduced crisis intervention.
