Last week we announded the media launch of the Your Choice programme, centred on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) tools and techniques being delivered to 2,500 children and young people at greatest risk of violence in every London Borough.
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Your Choice media launch! 'A new programme centred on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is being delivered to 2,500 children and young people at greatest risk of violence in every London borough'
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New report published today focused on supporting the continued efforts to raise the wellbeing of children and young people in England as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year London was awarded regional funding by the government's national Children’s Social Care Covid-19 Regional Recovery and Building Back Better Fund. For the first time London submitted a collaborative bid through LIIA, with excellent results.
Your Choice is a London-wide £10 million, 3-year programme that at its core seeks to reinterpret the use of CBT principles within current best practice in violence-reduction and related partnership approaches to effectively supporting children affected by extra-familial violence and related harms.
March 2024
Your Choice webinar hosted by Hillingdon Council as part of Social Work England
October 2023
Your Choice Pilot Report Published
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) published the findings from the pilot trial of the London Young People Study.
Read the report here.
October 2021 – March 2022
Home Office phase
The Home Office funded the first phase of the Your Choice programme.