INCLUDE is dedicated to tackling the crises of social exclusion among young people.

INCLUDE has a proven and evolving methodology for working and engaging effectively with very troubled young people. Most of these young people span agency boundaries and therefore INCLUDE’s response to meeting their need is embedded in true, multi-disciplinary practice.

In order to tackle the multiple problems that disaffected children and young people experience, our approach brings together education, social services, police, youth offending teams, businesses, Learning and Skills Councils and health authorities.

Our strategic aim is to have a major impact on social exclusion by enabling the redeployment of resources from crisis intervention into prevention.

We do this by offering a range of services, including:

  • Prevention and Intervention (transition/reintegration): in schools with pupils aged 4-13 and their families, engaging all appropriate services in support of the young person: behaviour support, educational psychologists, social workers, youth workers and child and adolescent mental health practitioners.
  • Working with excluded pupils (Pre 16): providing full time 25-hour programmes, re-engaging young people in mainstream learning activities.
  • Working with socially excluded young people (Post 16): Delivering vocational education, training and basic skills support for those participating in education or training, struggling to access and sustain.
  • Offering intensive one -to -one personal development.
  • Providing work experience opportunities.
  • Recognised e2e national provider status.
  • Intensive support: developing and sustaining bespoke programmes for offenders, care leavers and substance misusers. e.g. INCLUDE’s Turnaround Project to support young people as they strive to end their substance misuse.
  • Innovation and Change: delivering INCLUDE’s Flex Project, offering short-term, change-focused intervention; and aBc2 - an intensive individualised learning programme working with young mums 16–19 who wish to re-engage with education.

Through a combination of multi-agency working, individual support for the young person and engagement with the family and wider community, we aim to bring about change.

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