As part of Challenge London Poverty Week 12 – 18 October, we look at parenting in food poverty. Pre-Covid it was hard enough for many young parents to make ends meet. Now it is much worse. No hot meals and long-term impacts Lorraine is one of our young parent...
Libby, a Criminology and Sociology student at the University of Sussex, has just completed an eight-week internship here with us. Here she explains some of the things she got up to in her time here and what experiences she learned from going forward into her third and...
A couple, from the travelling community, described the experience of doing a residential family assessment as one of the hardest things they had ever done. They also had some words of encouragement for other families who come for assessment. The 12 week assessments...
Video groups: what young parents tell us Our outreach team are there for young mums and dads during the lockdown, even as children’s centres were closed and face to face contact is impossible. Young parent practitioner Ayoola reports: “We’re seeing...
It all started when Ayoola one of our team that supports young parents asked if we could find some extra money to buy gifts for the parents and children she was supporting. In response, our part-time communications officer (Sarah) set about setting up our first ever...
