There’s confidence the Social Investment Fund is assisting organisations that will effectively help at-risk youth. 

It's allocating $50 million into programmes for children with parents in prison, those who’ve grown up in care, and under-13s suspended from school. 

Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis told Mike Hosking they're taking a different approach to previous governments, which spent billions of dollars with no results. 

She says they're using data, measuring outcomes, and holding organisations accountable – adding the fund will be scaled up, if it works. 

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There’s confidence the Social Investment Fund is assisting organisations that will effectively help at-risk youth.&nbsp;
It's allocating $50 million into programmes for children with parents in prison, those who’ve grown up in care, and under-13s suspended from school.&nbsp;
Social Investment Minister Nicola Willis told Mike Hosking they're taking a different approach to previous governments, which spent billions of dollars with no results.&nbsp;
She says they're using data, measuring outcomes, and holding organisations accountable – adding the fund will be scaled up, if it works.&nbsp;
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Nicola Willis: Social Investment Minister on the funding of organisations to help at-risk youth

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