A beginners guide to what these agencies do now:

• the Education Service
• Social Care Services
• Connexions
• the Youth Offending Service
• the Health Service (and specifically the Primary Care Trusts)
  

can be found on the right called "Children and Young People's Service - Who we are and what we do".

We will be posting a further beginners guide to what the following agencies do now: 

• voluntary organisations
• District Councils
• the Police
• the Probation Service
• the Job Centres
• Drug Action teams
• and others involved with providing services for children and young people

We have added a glossary of terms - to explain commonly used/standard abbreviations.