The Improving Futures programme will fund up to 20 partnerships that bring together voluntary and public sector organisations, such as children’s charities and services that address families’ housing, health and employment needs.
These local partnerships will receive grants of up to £900,000 to work with families with children aged five to 10 years old.
Anna Southall, interim chair of the Big Lottery Fund, argued that families with multiple needs require joined-up support across adult and children’s services if their life chances are to be improved.
She added that the programme could save money for the taxpayer as a result of reduced need for costly interventions such as taking children into care, housing evictions, hospital stays or criminal proceedings. "Families in these circumstances interact with many different public services — from housing authorities to mental health services, schools to police," she explained.
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