The £200 million Co-location Fund, announced as part of the The Children's Plan: One Year On report in December 2008, is backing 101 projects, by providing between £50,000 to £10m to deliver vital investment in joined-up facilities.

Projects include development of facilities for children and young people's services, including children's centres; careers advice; youth clubs; health services, including mental health, drug and alcohol treatment centres; family support services; Combined Cadet Force facilities; and independent housing for young people leaving care to help their transition into longer-term, more permanent accommodation.

The funding is adding value to other sources of capital funding including BSF and Primary Capital programmes, NHS LIFT investment and regeneration funding.

Examples of schemes benefitting include:

• Essex (£50,000) - investment in a mobile facility to deliver support to young families in rural communities.
• Hillingdon (£60,000) - creation of a "virtual network", focused around using technology to engage and support the 500 young people across the borough currently disengaged from existing services and facilities because of Illness or phobia, pregnancy, bullying or disaffection, travelling, exclusion or because they are in care.
• Leicester (£3.2m) - 8 Integrated Service Hubs to be located in and around schools and other existing community services delivery points across the city to provide more integrated support to young people.
• Nottingham (£8.3m) - Development of two "joint service centres" in Bulwell and St Ann's, providing GP practices and other primary care services, library, and space for a range of other facilities including a youth centre with sports and recording facilities, play centre, housing office, and family support services.
• Lewisham (£5.5m) - As part of the development of Tidesmill School, Deptford, this project will create a range of facilities for wider community use including a library and family support services.
• Westminster (£10m) - alongside the ongoing redevelopment of primary and secondary schools on the Marlborough Hill Campus site, the co-location fund will provide space for wider services including dedicated space for health and children’s services, police and community sport facilities.
• Brighton and Hove (£5.4m) - Community hub that connects a primary school, GP surgery, a Children's Centre and Discovery Centre / library
• Birmingham (£5m) - Young People's Centre on school campus will provide office and consultation space for a range of services, including sexual health services, Connexions and youth services. In addition, the local CAMHS team will be based at the centre, providing dedicated support to both the secondary and special schools, as well as the wider community.
• National roll-out of adiZones (£3.1m) - matched funding to support development of over 30 adiZones, providing communities with a range of sports facilities in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympic Games

A full list of projects can be found here.

Download the Co-location fund Key Messages document.

Through the management of the programme, PfS will be collating and disseminating examples of good practice.