Family Intervention Projects Cutting Anti Social Trends

[Dave Roberts]

Research into the projects, which were set up across England in 2006 to help cut antisocial behaviour and improve parenting, found antisocial behaviour, domestic violence and bad parenting all reduced among those who were involved with the programmes.

According to the research, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research on behalf of the Respect taskforce, the number of children with educational problems such as truancy fell from 37 per cent to 21 per cent after working with the family intervention project.

Bad parenting also fell, from 60 per cent at the start of the projects to 32 per cent when they left.

The projects involved a key worker working with each family, offering support and showing families better ways of behaving and coping.

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[jennie fytche]

I agree where there is structured intervention by skilled key workers who offer support and show families better ways to live the results are amazing The Nch is a good organisation to do this, but do please check out Home-Start UK,(google it) recently stated to be the uk leading parenting charity by the government and have been carrying out these models of support across the uk and parts of Europe over the last 30years adapting and changing as society changes. Note I am biased because I have worked in this area for the last 5 years for Home-Start and have seen some amazing results where the lives of children and families have been improved dramatically. Anyone else doing similar work?

[Dave Roberts]

http://www.home-start.org.uk/