ASCENT PAN-LONDON FLOATING SUPPORT
WHAT IS ASCENT PAN-LONDON FLOATING SUPPORT?
The Ascent 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.
• A property which is survivor's resettlement or move on accommodation and is not known to the perpetrator.
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.
