ABSTRACT
Barnardos is the largest childcare charity in the United Kingdom, operating over 200 childcare services nationwide. Established in the nineteenth century, Barnardos focused on child rescue, working with street children in East London, and it is an interesting reflection that while it has grown and developed to meet the demands of the 1990s, it has recognised the need for services for ‘child prostitution’ a hundred years later. Barnardos is committed to the development and maintenance of innovative work with children and young people. It is committed to working in partnership with other agencies, and most importantly with children and young people themselves, seeking to promote within its work the needs and rights of children, as embodied in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child. I was the social worker employed by Barnardos to run the Streets and Lanes Project (SALs) in Bradford which is the subject of this chapter. Subsequently, I have been responsible for establishing similar projects in other areas of the UK.
