Partnership working in early years and young people services - Care Accolades 2010

The Prepare Team - City of Edinburgh Council Children and Families Department
Partner organisations: NHS Lothian

PrePare is a multi-disciplinary team co-located within a child and family centre in the city of Edinburgh. In Edinburgh many babies each year are born with the effects of substances to which they are exposed before birth. Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome have many devastating and complicated effects on children after birth and throughout their lives.

The dynamic, creative, imaginative and enthusiastic team have worked with 172 women since July 2006 aiming to maximise the health and wellbeing of pregnant women who have substance misuse difficulties. The aim is to support children at the earliest point, to give them the best chance when beginning their lives.


Barnardo's Works - Barnardo's Scotland
Partner organisations: Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)

Barnardo's Works is an innovative and successful programme that allows disadvantaged young people to achieve independent employment. Since 2007 Barnardo's Scotland has worked with Scottish and Southern Energy to offer jobs in a wider range of industry sectors, which has resulted in the sharing of skills, knowledge and resources from two different agencies, each playing to their strength.

The programme matches the skills and talents of young people to the needs of participating employers and young people are supported to overcome barriers to employment and access jobs that enable a route out of poverty. Over 80% of the young people involved achieve independent employment.


Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) - East Glasgow Community Health Care Partnership
Partner organisations: Strathclyde Police, Glasgow City Council Education Services and Glasgow Community and Safety Services

Significantly higher levels of gang violence take place across the Glasgow local authority area than most other authorities in Scotland. This has led the partners involving taking a joint approach between them and the local communities which is required in order to reduce the violence which affects these neighbourhoods.

The Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) is principally tasked to achieve a reduction in gang violence experienced in Glasgow. By focussing primarily on the east end of the city it facilitates a partnership approach that is not only structured to reduce the violence gang members inflict on each other, but also to provide young gang members with alternatives to the violent lifestyle that gang membership involves.

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