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Kids Company

A charity founded by Camila Batmanghelidjh in 1996 in order to provide practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children and young people. Many of the 14,000 children reached have experienced severe and multiple trauma. Often these are ‘lone children’ living in chronic deprivation, with little or no adult support. They face the daily anxieties of caring for their family as the role of parent and child is reversed. Through their wraparound care they help vulnerable children to manage the devastating effects of abuse, and return them to a safer childhood and brighter future.

Kids Company believes that punishing these children cements their emotional coldness. The healing process can only take place if sustained, caring relationships are developed through which both their practical and emotional needs are addressed. Kids Company is advanced in its service delivery. Employing a multi-disciplinary team at street level, using the latest neuro-physiological thinking to deliver therapeutic provisions which are both preventative and reparative. During the evaluation process, 97% of young people described Kids Company’s services as effective.

Mothers4Children supports the after school ‘Club Time’ program, based at the Arches II centre, which provides children with an experience of sustained care which helps repair their sense of abandonment and enables them to work through the trauma many have experienced through physical and sexual abuse. These are the children that local authorities struggle to manage, because their behaviour is so disturbed and their needs so complex.