What are Railway Children doing to make a difference for the children?
We believe you need to tackle this issue in two ways. We have partner projects across England and Scotland. We fund them to work directly with children and young people providing one to one sessions, family mediation, drop-in, street work and school work. On a national level, our National Policy and Strategy Advisor chairs a group of organisations that work with children that runaway, (its called the English Coalition for Runaway Children). They meet to discuss the best ways to work with young people and share this with the government departments that are responsible for this area. Our strategy and policy advisor sits on a number of groups that include the police, social services and the voluntary sector. They are currently developing new guidance for everyone to use when working with children that run away. The national work is supported by our national researcher who will also launch a brand new piece of research this winter, focussing on children and young people that have become de
