Education support project, Scotland
Keys to the Future helps to ensure homeless children are in school and doing well.
Nearly 10,000 families with children are homeless in Scotland. This project, which is supported by the Big Lottery Fund and Paul Hamlyn Foundation, will work with homeless children to enable them to catch up on their education and minimise the number of times they have to change schools.
Based in existing Shelter Families Projects in Edinburgh, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway, our Education Liaison Workers started work in Spring 2008.
Over the coming three years, they will provide:
- support and advice to 560 homeless children and their families.
- practical assistance, in the form of detailed action plans specially tailored to the individual child.
With the help of peer mentors and volunteers, our Education Liaison Workers will work hard to:
- increase and improve educational attainment of children in temporary accommodation.
- build self-esteem and confidence in children and young people, as well as improve social skills and ability to form relationships with their peers and adults.
- provide a point of contact between the many different services working with homeless children.
Read an independent evaluation of Scotland’s Keys to the Future service. (pdf)
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