Pooled funding benefits families

Mahrukh Choughtai
Wednesday, November 7, 2001

A new 1.2m purpose-built centre in Ruchazie, Glasgow, is providing a wealth of services for families and young children, including a project to help men to be better dads. The charity Quarriers, which provides family support services to people who have chronic drug or alcohol problems or who have suffered neglect or abuse, moved its Glasgow family support unit from temporary premises into the new centre last month. A funding package for the Quarriers Family Resource Project was devised last year following negotiations between the charity, Greater Glasgow Health Board, Glasgow Council education and social work departments, two of Glasgow's social inclusion partnerships and Scottish Homes. Their efforts were praised last week in a report on integrated children's services, which cited the project as an example of what can be achieved by pooling budgets.