FAMILY Support Project Gets £900,000

Thursday, 26 January 2012 |

HUNDREDS of vulnerable families across Inverclyde will get help thanks to a £900,000 lottery grant announced today.

Nurturing Inverclyde, a partnership project between Barnardo's and Inverclyde Council will provide intensive support for 300 families across Inverclyde, many of whom have been affected by domestic abuse, mental ill health, addiction, trauma and neglect.

It will also bring together the relevant departments of the Local Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) to deliver a wide range of family support. These will include parenting groups, homework clubs, art therapy sessions for children, a dads’ group and an outreach support service for families.

Assistant director of children’s services, Mary Glasgow, said: “This award will help the charity develop Barnardo’s Nurturing Inverclyde, a family resource service in Inverclyde to work with families with children under 12.

“The service will offer a range of supports to help improve family relationships. Together in close partnership with Inverclyde Community Health and Care Partnership we hope to make a real effort to engage with families who are often called hard-to-reach but also easy to ignore.”

The money comes from the Big Lottery Fund and is among the first awards from its UK-wide Improving Futures programme.