Family Finances Support
What is the Family Finances Approach?
The Family Finances approach aims to build parent’s financial resilience and to increase their earnings through working. Eligible parents will be assigned a named key worker, to help them achieve their employment goals and overcome any barriers they face. The key worker will help them access and sustain support that is available across the city. This free approach will be tailored to parent’s needs, for as long as they need it.
Who are the Family Finances Key Workers?
A Glasgow Life team of skilled mentors, the Family Finance Key Workers will work with families across the city. The team comes with extensive experience of working with individuals and partner agencies to provide access to a wide range of advice, including:
- Benefits, financial services, employment opportunities, training and learning etc.
Who can use the approach?
The project is open to parents and kinship carers who are looking for support to improve their employability. They can either be on low incomes or looking for work, and must experience one of the following:
- lone parents or kinship carers
- parents or kinship carers under the age of 25
- parents or kinship carers from black and minority ethnic backgrounds
- parents or kinship carers with disabilities, or those who have a child with a disability
- parents or kinship carers with 3 or more children under 16
- parents or kinship carers with a child under the age of one.
How can parents access this approach?
Referrals can be made by calling, texting or emailing the contact details below:
07584 773 328/ 07443 81 4190
finacialcapability@glasgowlife.org.uk