Project
Ormiston M Power
Purpose
To break the cycle of children being taken into care
Funding
A grant of £36,000 a year over three years from the Henry Smith Charity
Background
Around one in three care applications involve parents who have had children taken into care before. Suffolk County Council was keen to improve support for vulnerable parents who have had children removed and in 2011 sought help from local professionals and organisations. One was family support charity Ormiston Families, which funded a year-long pilot project in Ipswich from November 2012.
Action
M Power provides one-to-one support and guidance to parents who have had one or more children removed and risk having another child taken into care. It also supports women who are pregnant again to make changes that might allow their new baby to remain at home.
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