Vulnerable Children

The vulnerable children programme aims to improve the life chances, outcomes and inclusion of potentially marginalised/excluded children and young people, who with their families, are likely to be in need of child welfare services. Our work helps frontline practitioners and managers to translate research and to secure continuous improvements in policy practice and services, and we use the learning from this to influence policy.

Our current priorities are:

children in care or at the edge of care
young people excluded from/disaffected with education
young people in the justice system
child protection
young people living with or closely affected by HIV, in particular the transition of young people with HIV from children to adult services.

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