Southwark Diocesan Welcare: Welcare in Croydon
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Lorna White
Project funding
£108,226
Funding round
We are using the Round 2 grant to develop work begin in Round 1 by continuing to provide parenting that improve communication, reduce social isolation and anti social behaviour. The courses address:
- Factors placing children at risk of exclusion from school or offending
- Families with high level of trauma (including domestic violence
- Children with specific needs and disabilities. Crèches will give children opportunities for play, social and emotional development.
We are setting up teenage parents group to improve communication with their children and awareness of risks associated with health, safety and debt. Parents will be coached in parenting responsibilities, healthy eating, budgeting and time management; they will be helped to make informed decisions about the benefits of staying in education or entering employment.
Our Croydon supported contact service was opened in June 2005, assisted by the Parenting fund grant (round 1). In April 2006 we are extending our contract with CAFCASS to take families from their centre in Surbiton. From then, Croydon Contact Centre will be open every Saturday and provide a service for 50-70 families per year, facilitating 24-26 contact sessions per week. Children are referred by solicitors, family courts or a parent, where there is a failure between parents to agree on contact arrangements, or issues of domestic violence, substance misuse or child protection. Children are enabled to develop and maintain positive relations with their non-resident parent, usually the father.