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• Health and associated needs
• Income and expenditure
• Debts and loans
• Life skills
• Community activity
Under these broad headings an action plan will be agreed between the
worker and the family, prioritised by the family.
4.9 Specific problems that have been identified include families
experiencing and/or causing ASB, mental health, drug and alcohol
issues, parenting skills and money management. Specific support
services will focus on these issues and will link with local communities
and other services.
4.10 Therefore, this service has been identified as a key strategy to break
the cycle of disadvantage by:
� Directly delivering supportive services which will include referrals to
appropriate agencies, practical assistance with life skills, welfare rights
and ongoing support as agreed in a support contract with the family.
� Enable the family to be able to disclose abuse situations (our
experience in working with women experiencing Domestic Abuse will
assist with this process) Latest figures suggest 77% of Leicestershire
Supporting Families would have experienced domestic abuse.
� Enable the family to benefit from our experience of multi-agency
working and of being the ‘lynch pin’ in bringing services together.
� Enable the family to make a successful transition to sustaining
independent tenancies in the community.
� To identify at an early stage families that are struggling to maintain
their tenancy and to work with them to ensure they continue to live
independently.
� Maximise independence of clients including active encouragement to
use and engage with local community facilities, services and groups.
� Ensure that people are aware of and engage with relevant health
provision such as GP, community health visitors, and specialist health
providers.
� Assist and work with Social Care and Health, Education and Probation
services to ensure that those interventions are completed and
supported.
� Commit to and provide a quality service that is client focused and
committed to developing good practice across statutory and voluntary
agencies.
4.11 Intensive work will be provided through joined-up relationships with
other organisations in the area with the aim of forming effective links to:
� Drug and alcohol treatment programme
� General medical services
� Peer support
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