Young parents came together to host a carnival celebration, arranging activities and showing off their talents. Over 100 people came to “Carnival Comes to St Michael’s.” It was a day of celebration for all the young parents and their children,...
Fatherhood is not always what someone imagines; at St Michael’s, we often watch new fathers grapple with its challenges and then begin to grow. One dad found himself in a dire situation when asked to choose between staying with his wife or raising his child as a...
The best way to show you the work we do is to let stories from our work speak for themselves. Each family helped by St Michael has a different story. Dwayne “When I first joined up with St Michael’s I was literally… hanging on a string.” Dwayne...
“I can’t even let my child go out to water his tomato plants. He has to watch me do it.” Nathan is a single parent; he lives with his two children in a one-bedroom ninth-floor flat in Lambeth. He has been trying to get a two-bedroom, but he is not a priority because...
“Our children’s social care system is a 30-year-old tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape: simultaneously rigid and yet shaky,” Josh MacAlister, chair of the recent independent review of Children’s Social Care in England, wrote in the report. He told the BBC, ...
