I am really excited about this! I stumbled across this charity on
The One Show Currently if a family become homeless social services has a legal obligation to take the children into care, which is horrendous, why they don't have a legal obligation to house the whole family I don't know
Save the family are a charity that houses and supports homeless families to stop their children being taken into care and teaches them life skills to deal with family life.
As well as being a humane and compassionate way to support people it is also very cost effective. It costs 50,000 pounds to keep a child in care for a year. Save the family can house support and reeducate/train a whole family for slightly less than that. It also will have an enormous positive knock on effect for the economic and social future. According to the
After Adoption web site
people who have spent time in the care system are sixty six percent more likely to have their own children taken into care. So it's really important to find ways of supporting families without splitting them up and without taking their children in to care if at all possible
I found these vids about the charity (the presenter is kind of annoying and patronising but they are worth while watching anyway)
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