Sometimes it can be difficult for social workers to know how to support children and families with NRPF. This toolkit provides support for social workers to work in a human rights focused way.
This evidence draws on the experience of practitioners from the No Recourse Early Action Model (NOREAM) pilot project in Hackney. NOREAM works with Hackney families who are subject to the NRPF rule and are at risk of destitution. As such our evidence offers a case study of the qualitative experiences of NRPF in one London borough, which we believe have transferable learning for understanding the way that the NRPF rule impacts on child poverty more broadly
This paper describes a practitioner reflection on early help for migrant families with no recourse to public funds. We used Maclean’s ‘weather model’ to examine the positives and challenges of the work. The reflection led to positive changes in programme delivery, but also highlighted tensions between following a structured practice manual and allowing practitioner autonomy, and the friction that ‘hostile environment’ restrictions caused between statutory and voluntary sectors, and between service users and local authority social workers. We suggest that the experience highlights the need for future service development which includes the voice of social workers.