About Us

 

We were established in 1994, with one worker supporting 15 young people.  Today we are a team of over 80 staff and have supported over 2,000 young people in West London.

 

 

We Are

 

• Focused on individual young people.  As an organisation working for the young we try to view the world through their eyes.

 

• An independent voluntary organisation, allowing us to be innovative in our approach and creative in developing new ways of working to help young people to achieve their goals.

 

• Collaborative, we seek to work with others whenever we can in order to provide more support for young people.

 

• Accountable, we are responsible to those we seek to serve – young people, their families and communities as well as those who support our work. We are professional, efficient and effective.

 

• A team who value diversity, both in our staff and in those we seek to support. We never lose sight of our shared purpose.

 

What we do

 

• We work with young people and their families in West London. We focus our efforts on young people who are struggling at school, have been excluded from school, are in care, in trouble with the law or are newly arrived asylum seekers or refugees.

              

• We provide an integrated education and counselling service, working with the whole family to deliver a customised package of learning for each young person, including basic skills, life skills, confidence building, vocational and academic education, mentoring and counselling.

 

• We work with statutory and voluntary agencies and employers who support our work and make a difference to young people’s lives.

 

• We provide training in counselling, mentoring and anti-discriminatory practice to professionals who work with disaffected and excluded young people.

• We provide consultancy services, supporting organisations and Local Authorities in implementing the PPP structure, theories and practice.

 

 

 

History

 

PPP was formed in 1994 as a response to the Southall riots in West London. The local chief of police approached the London Borough of Ealing CEO to discuss ways of supporting and (re) integrating a group of disaffected young people into education and out of trouble.

 

The LEA’s response was to fund a pilot project, the Pupil Parent Partnership Project, working through the authority’s Education Business Partnership. This initial work was a success, and efforts were made to seek additional funding. Small grants from various sources kept the project going until 1999 when a large 5-year grant from SRB was secured. This amounted to £2 million over 5 years and enabled the PPP to expand and develop its work.

 

Over the past 5 years, PPP has been contracted by Local Authorities to deliver an education programme for young people excluded from school and young people newly arrived in the area for whom the authority has no school place (Refugees and Asylum Seekers).  Increasingly, individual schools and other agencies – Youth Offending Services, Social Services, Mental Health etc. – are referring young people to our service.

 

The PPP model is now becoming recognised by other Local Authorities, as well as nationally and internationally, and has resulted in us developing our consultancy work in order to develop our work.

 

Governance

 

The Pupil Parent Partnership, formed in 1994, was originally a project based within the local Education Business Partnership, and managed by a steering group. In 2003, we registered as a company in our own right.

 

The Pupil Parent Partnership is a not for profit voluntary organisation, constituted as a company limited by guarantee with a responsible board of directors.

 

Structure

 

• Service Delivery

• Training and Consultancy

• Business and Finance

• Research and Development