HC Deb 09 July 2001 vol 371 cc429-31W
Mr. Kidney

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the projects that his Department is funding in the current financial year that(a) provide parenting classes for adults and (b) otherwise include a parenting skills element. [1722]

Mr. Blunkett

The Family Policy Unit at the Home Office under Family Support Grant (FSG) funds voluntary sector projects aimed at providing support for parents in their parenting role. Not all projects funded provide parenting classes as it is accepted that some parents prefer other methods, though all the funded work aims at supporting parents in their parenting role. Additionally not all the funded projects provide direct face-to-face services to adults as some like the National Family and Parenting Institute and Parentline Plus have a national role, such as the provision of information or a freephone telephone helpline, while some produce support materials to be used across the voluntary sector.

Following the last Spending Review the current total available to voluntary organisations through the Family Support Grant is £5.6 million per year for a three year period beginning 1 April 2001. The emphasis of the grant is on evaluated practice, developing new or existing models of practice in new ways and on dissemination or replication of good practice and effective work rather than routinely supporting locally delivered programmes.

Following is a list of the organisations that currently receive funding under Family Support Grant. However, in addition to the list, there are other projects, funded through the Department for Education and Skills, local government and carry-over from previous Home Office programmes Such programmes will be a key priority for the development of the Childrens Fund.

  • National Family and Parenting Institute
  • Parentline Plus (three projects)
  • National Council for One Parent Families (two projects)
  • Parenting Education Support Forum (five projects)
  • Contact a Family (two projects)
  • National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations (two projects)
  • Trust for the Study of Adolescence (five projects)
  • After Adoption (two projects)
  • Fathers Direct (three projects)
  • YMCA (three projects)
  • PIPPIN (two projects)
  • Ormiston Trust
  • Divert Trust (three projects)
  • Working with Men
  • National Association of Child Contact Centres (two projects)
  • Black Development Agency
  • The Warren
  • Coram Families
  • National Newpin
  • Child Psychotherapy Trust (two projects)
  • Race Equality Unit (two projects)
  • Family Rights Group
  • Peers Early Education Partnerships
  • Newham Bengali Community Trust
  • Family Welfare Association
  • Disability Pregnancy Parenthood International/Disabled Parents Network (two projects)
  • Positive Parenting Publications
  • Family Planning Association
  • Health Advocacy for Turkish and Kurdish Speaking Communities
  • Crime Conecern
  • Norwood Ravenswood
  • RPS Rainer
  • Young Voice (two projects)
  • Barnardos Byker Sands
  • SCOPE (two projects)
  • Family Matters Institute
  • National Children's Centre
  • East Lancashire Deaf Society
  • PACE
  • Community Education Development Centre (two projects)
  • Ealing MENCAP
  • Family Links
  • Asian Women's Project
  • National Childbirth Trust
  • YWCA
  • One Plus one
    • 431W
  • SENSE
  • Ann Craft Trust
  • KJ Academy
  • Federation of Prisoners Family Support Groups
  • Young Minds
  • Care for the Family
  • Drugline
  • St. Anne's
  • Leeds Animation Workshop
  • Kidscape
  • Refugee Lifeline
  • Kimia Clinic Trust
  • Change North
  • Oxfordshire Council for Voluntary Action
  • Drugscope
  • Relate South Essex
  • Markfield Project
  • Brent Irish Advisory Service
  • North Derbyshire Child Clubs Network.

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