Over the past 13 years the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN) has transformed thousands of vulnerable and disadvantaged childrens' lives. "The CEN package as delivered by the staff is unique in its thoroughness, breadth of concern and follow through." Our service has been independently assessed to show the value and impact of our education services that work with both the home and school. Our education advocates, mentors, mediators and restorative justice facilitators offer expertise in working with children at risk of exclusion and/or have received either a fixed-term or permanent exclusion and/or are persistent absentees. It is through our provision of advice, support, representation, advocacy, mediation and restorative approaches to restore relationships between the home and school that we successfully reintegrate children back into mainstream education. That makes us the child's and parent's chosen charity. At the CEN the child truly is number one!