The annual impact report of education charity School-Home Support (SHS) has revealed that the proportion of safeguarding interventions it undertakes has more than tripled in the last six years.
In 2016/17, the charity supported 10,500 children and their families in the South of England, with safeguarding interventions making up 17 per cent of its total number of interventions. This compares to nine per cent in 2015/16 and just six per cent in 2010/11.
The charity blames an increase in schools’ safeguarding responsibilities and a reduction in early help funding, which is used to support a child or family as soon as problems emerge.
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