I help children cope, but too many are being failed as the system crumbles

My small charity team provides vital early help for vulnerable children, but devastating cuts mean we are being left to pick up the pieces when crisis hits

When a teenage girl came to our early intervention service recently to help her to work through past domestic violence, it soon became clear she was in a volatile and potentially dangerous situation, with continuing abuse at home.

We made a safeguarding referral and she and her family were quickly assigned a social worker while we kept working with her; but it’s very worrying that without our service, this could have been missed.

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from Children | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2zQPwKP