04. Depaul UK’s Approach In 2020, Depaul provided support to 4,072 clients in accommodation services, in the community and in prisons. They worked with a further 2,709 young people through their schools and education programmes delivered in education establishments. This was a significantly reduced number on the previous year due to the closure of schools and colleges because of the national lockdown. Their Family Mediation teams moved from providing face-to-face mediation, to supporting families with shopping, providing equipment for home schooling and holding online support sessions. Every child in the 328 families supported by a Depaul Family Mediation service in 2020 either secured a school place throughout lockdown or was provided with the equipment they needed to access online schooling. Depaul led a network of 31 active Nightstop services from Glasgow to Guernsey. 987 people volunteered to be involved with Nightstop in a range of roles, from drivers and chaperones to hosts and mentors. During that year, they provided 7,174 safe bed-nights for 531 young people across the UK who had nowhere else to go because 414 homes opened their spare room for someone in need.
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