Press Release, 15th October<\/p>\n
\u00a3300,000 for new family support service <\/strong><\/p>\n Local MSP, Duncan McNeil, has welcomed funding of \u00a3299,200 to benefit vulnerable children and families in his constituency.<\/p>\n The money will be used by Barnardo\u2019s to establish a new family support service, Nurture Plus in Inverclyde and has been awarded by Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland\u2019s Partnership Drugs Initiative.<\/p>\n The new service will work closely with local health and social work services to support up to 50 families annually with children up to the age of 12. The aim is to increase the safety of children impacted by parental substance misuse by providing support to the whole family.<\/p>\n Family workers will support parents and their children by offering a tailored support package focusing on keeping children safe, improving parenting skills and improving the children\u2019s home life and helping families engage with the wider activities in their community.\u00a0 The funding will be spent on staffing and project running costs.<\/p>\n Fiona Duncan, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cEveryone agrees that children should get the best start in life and be supported to realise their potential. PDI was set up in 2001 to increase the well-being of children and young people affected by alcohol and other drugs. Every year, we support charities working to support some of Scotland\u2019s most vulnerable families. This new service run by Barnardo\u2019s will provide intensive support for children affected by their parents\u2019 substance misuse.\u00a0 The aim is to keep children at home and crucially, safer in the home environment while supporting parents to recover from their substance misuse issues.\u00a0 It is the sort of project PDI was established to support and the Foundation is delighted to be able to fund it.”<\/p>\n Duncan McNeil MSP added<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u201cI welcome this grant award for Inverclyde and Greenock, knowing that families in my constituency will benefit.\u00a0 Barnardo\u2019s has a great track record working with very vulnerable families in such circumstances and this project will make a difference for children in their earliest years.\u00a0 This sort of intensive family support will not only help parents recover from substance misuse, but crucially it will also ensure more children can stay at home safely within their families.\u00a0 Focusing on what they need in terms of parenting support means Inverclyde and Greenock\u2019s vulnerable children will get a better start in life. This grant from Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland\u2019s Partnership Drugs Initiative will help make a real difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Press Release, 15th October \u00a3300,000 for new family support service Local MSP, Duncan McNeil, has welcomed funding of \u00a3299,200 to benefit vulnerable children and families in his constituency. The money will be used by Barnardo\u2019s to establish a new family support service, Nurture Plus in Inverclyde and has been awarded by Lloyds TSB Foundation for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duncanmcneil.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}