Dundee has been awarded £1m to fund a three-year project to support vulnerable children.

This comes as BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation team up to invest £2m to help some of the country's most vulnerable youngsters.

The project is described as having a "holistic" approach that involves engaging with families, local communities and schools to establish support networks that can identify problems early on.

Those behind the initiative hope it can then be rolled out "at scale" across Scotland and further afield.

Chief executive of BBC Children in Need, Simon Antrobus, said: "We believe that children and young people can overcome many challenges in their lives, given the right support.

"This funding will make a real difference to young people at risk of being taken into care."

Sir Tom Hunter, founder of The Hunter Foundation, added: "We need to switch from treatment of a problem to preventing it in the first place, the human and economic cost of a young person entering the care system is often very poor.

"So we will work with enlightened local authorities and charities that recognise we need to build the solution up from the young person, the family and the community, understanding top down services are simply inefficient and often don't work; remodelling delivery as we go."