School attendances improve thanks to support provided to North Lanarkshire families

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School attendances have improved and social work interventions avoided thanks to various forms of support provided to North Lanarkshire families.The latest report on how North Lanarkshire Council’s Resilient People Programme, which covers a range of support services offered to families by the local authority as well as partner organisations highlights the positive outcomes which have been attained.Barnardo’s Scotland, Action for Children, Impact Arts and Home-Start provide a whole family support service in the community, based in the Newmains and St Brigid’s community hub.

This provides help in many forms, including one on one support, groups, drop in sessions, family days out and activities during school holidays.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

Get all the news from your area – as well as features, entertainment, sport and the latest on Lanarkshire’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic – straight to your fingertips, 24/7.The free download features the latest breaking news and exclusive stories, and allows you to customise your page to the sections that matter most to you.Head to the App Store and never miss a beat in Lanarkshire - iOS - Android Between April and July this service worked with 24 families, and in nine cases successfully prevented the need for social work intervention.Half of these families had poor relationships with their schools while many were also struggling due to poverty.

The service is therefore working with the families to ensure they receive the correct assistance while Barnardo’s will soon also have the ability to give them direct payments.Impact Arts us currently working on peer mentoring, community engagement and co-production projects and these are being rolled out