Wednesday 22 July 2015. CSH Surrey's Community Fund Panel has agreed to award £2,000 to the Dorking Nursery School and Dorking Rural Sure Start Children’s Centre.
The Nursery School and Children’s Centre provide activities and support to local families to narrow the gap in outcomes for the most disadvantaged. Funding was requested to support counselling services for vulnerable families, from September 2015 until July 2016. The project will provide weekly one-to-one counselling sessions to families who are workless, often lone parents and who are at risk of poor outcomes for their children.
Through the project parents have been able to better understand the impact they have on their own families and therefore have become more effective parents. Two individuals have since returned to work and another had her child returned to her, following a removal by Social Services. There is currently a waiting list for the service.
