ASCENT Safe Accommodation Floating Support Services led by Refuge

The Ascent Pan London Floating Support Service provides high-quality domestic abuse support, by-and-for’ services and counselling. It is a partnership of eleven specialist domestic abuse organisations across London, delivering trauma-informed and wrap-around floating support for those in safe accommodation, across London:

SERVICES

• 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 empowerments work to maximise income, including support with debt.
• Counselling
• 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).

PARTNERS