A Rainer day

Rainer West Essex is holding an information morning today, to tell local organisations a little about what it does. I arrive at Shield House at The Pinnacles at a quarter to ten, and sit down with a cup of coffee and copy of the Rainer information pack.

At ten o'clock we start, with a presentation by the different members of Rainer staff about the various projects the organisation undertakes. I knew about the Advocacy project, but not about some of the other services provided by Rainer, which range from training for employment to providing a trained volunteer 'appropriate adult' to turn up on an on-call basis whenever a young person is taken to a police station, and parents or other appropriate adults aren't available to support them. Some services which are provided by Rainer elsewhere in Essex aren't yet available in Harlow; let's hope that changes, as they're clearly doing some excellent work.