Local authority targeted parenting and family support funding
The Families Division at DCSF currently administers 3 grants to local authorities to provide targeted parenting and whole-family support. These initiatives have been highlighted in the Children's Plan.
Parenting Support Strategy Grant
Funding for:
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Parenting Experts (for all LAs) to employ senior
practitioners to deliver evidence based parenting programmes for parents of
children and young people considered to be at risk e.g. family substance misuse
issues, mental health and/or domestic violence; they also provide support to
the parenting commissioner.
-
Parenting Early Intervention Programme - PEIP (for 42 LAs)
- aim to increase support for the parents of children and young people aged 8 -
13 years old at risk of negative outcomes (particularly anti-social behaviour)
and ensure they receive a coordinated package of support at an early
stage.
- Family Pathfinders (for 15 LAs) and Extended Family Pathfinders for young carers (for 6 LAs) - to improve outcomes for families caught in a cycle of low achievement, particularly those who are not being effectively engaged and supported by existing services and to encourage greater co-operation with adult and children's services, including social care, employment, housing, adult mental health and adult skills.
Respect Parenting Practitioner Grant
Funding for 77 local authorities, including at district level, to employ senior parenting practitioners to deliver parenting programmes for parents of children and young people considered to be risk of anti-social behaviour or offending.
Family Intervention Project Grants (ASB and child poverty)
Funding for 65 local authorities, including at district level, to deliver intensive support and challenge to families who are persistently anti-social and at risk of homelessness (ASB FIPs).
10 of these local authorities are also receiving funding to set up child poverty family intervention projects aimed at tackling intergenerational worklessness and associated disadvantage (Child Poverty FIPs).
Terms and conditions / claim forms
Parenting
Support Strategy Grant terms and conditions circular and progress
report template for quarters 1 and 2
Respect
Parenting Practitioner Grant terms and conditions circular and progress
report template for quarters 1 and 2
ASB
Family Intervention Project Grant terms and conditions circular and finance
report template
Child
Poverty Family Intervention Project Grant terms and conditions circular and
model for
the following LAs: South Tyneside, Newcastle, Stoke, Bristol, Middlesbrough,
Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Hartlepool, Nottingham City and Knowsley.
Guidance for all practitioners
Free
training and support from the National Academy for Parenting
Practitioners
Resources
for practitioners and other stakeholders working with families affected by
parental mental-health problems
Resources
for staff working with children of prisoners
Evidence-based
resources for staff working with children of prisoners
Guidance for Respect Parenting Practitioner Grant
Respect
Parenting Practitioner (RPP) Q&A
Guidance for Parenting Support Strategy Grant
Parenting
Experts Q&A
Parenting
Early Intervention Programme guidance
Parenting
Early Intervention Programme Q&A
Family
Pathfinders
This page was last updated on 05 December 2008
