ASCENT PAN-LONDON FLOATING SUPPORT
WHAT IS GLAPAN-LONDON FLOATING SUPPORT?
The GLA Pan-London Floating Support Service (FSS) provides high-quality domestic abuse (DA) support, ‘by-and-for’ services and counselling.
SERVICES
The support offered to survivors upon allocation include:
• Specialist support and safety planning, to reduce risks and harm for survivors and their children.
• Ongoing casework support, including referrals to specialist advice and practical support, such as legal advice around civil and criminal remedies.
• Empowering survivors with information on their rights and options, demystifying complex statutory systems and dispelling myths perpetuated by perpetrators and wider society.
• Support to maintain accommodation, or to source permanent accommodation as necessary.
• Financial empowerment work to maximise income, including support with debt.
• Referral to therapeutic support from Woman’s Trust.
• Support to link with local resources such as ESOL classes, volunteering, and training to develop financial independence, and opportunities to gain social support, such as mother-and-baby groups, or formal DA programmes (delivered by partners).
WHO CAN THE SERVICE SUPPORT?
• Survivor currently in a refuge but due to move on in the next month and needs re-settlement support.
• Single sex temporary accommodation.
• A property where a sanctuary scheme has been put in place.
PROJECT PARTNERSHIP
This partnership, which is run by 11 specialist DA organisations, and delivers trauma-informed, wrap-around, client-led support for those in safe accommodation, across London.
SERVICES AIM
The overall aim of the service is to increase survivor safety over time; to reduce and remove harm for survivors. and to reduce incidents of domestic abuse for a group of survivors who might find it hard to access support by other means.
