NORTH Yorkshire County Council has won more than £2m of Government cash to help young people in the care system.

The money will help to develop the authority’s “No Wrong Door” programme, which is designed to improve life chances for the county’s most vulnerable young people, by giving each child one key worker to stick with them, and help them get the right services.

North Yorkshire is the only authority in the country so far to attract funding from the Department for Education’s Innovations Programme for rethinking care for adolescents, and the £2 million will be matched by £4 million from the council's own budgets.

North Yorkshire County Council has won over £2m of Government funding to transform provision for adolescent young people in the care system.

The service will work out of two hubs in Scarborough and Harrogate, which will have residential beds and emergency places, community foster family placements, and a range of other services, and will replace traditional council run children’s homes.