We were told government’s approach is to meet the need of many young people through focusing on individual programmes and focusing their join up on those who have complex and overlapping needs.22 The NAO found that while departments work together on individual programmes and initiatives there is no overall assessment of whether vulnerable adolescents’ needs are being addressed.23 This was also the view of the current Children’s Commissioner for England who said that collaboration seems to happen at a programme level but not at the overall strategic level which it needed to be to provide the proper support for vulnerable children and young people.24 Multi-agency safeguarding partnerships.