The Department for Education has released a new tranche of funding to enable local authorities to deliver mentoring programmes to unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
DfE has awarded chosen local authorities with a share of £18.4m committed to its family finding, befriending and mentoring programmes for the 2024/25 financial year.
The programmes, developed based on the government’s response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, are designed to “help children in care and care leavers to identify and connect with the important people in their lives and create safe, stable, loving relationships”.
Achieving for Children (AfC) which runs children’s services in the London boroughs of Richmond and Kingston is among those to receive funding.
