Salford Assisted Families Project (ASSFAM)
Salford Assisted Families Project (Assfam) was established in April 2003, providing a floating support service to 20 families across the city. It is funded in the main by Supporting People with a significant level of contributed staff from Children’s Services.The service takes referrals from housing providers, Children’s Services and neighbourhood community sector teams (local crime and disorder meetings). Families must be at risk of eviction as a result of anti social behaviour (ASB).
The service is targeted at early intervention and is preventative in nature, but will work with families who are subject to current legal action providing all parties are committed to finding a solution that may enable a family to remain in their tenancy.It provides multi agency plans to address support needs that contribute to ASB. Plans include a strong focus on challenging behaviour from families that impact negatively on communities and promoting sustainable change.
Assfam contributes to a broad range of agendas within the city. These include the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership targets, homelessness prevention targets and the Every Child Matters agenda.
The Family Intervention Project (FIP) will recruit two additional workers to support up to 6 Dispersed tenancies across the city. These tenancies will provide intensive support and rehabilitation for families that are at risk of eviction because of ASB. They will enable housing providers to move families causing concern, or provide an estate management alternative where families are unable to remain in their current tenancy but who still exhibit ASB that requires addressing.
Recently part of a five project evaluation by Sheffield University commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government, whose findings show that the project has a high success rate in saving tenancies (78%). The project provides a useful prevention tool in the city's wider ASB strategy and we are excited about the extra potential the FIP funding brings to the scope of the project.
For more information please contact Paul Goodwin on 0161 787 9687.
This page was last updated on 24 October 2008
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