Before you request a Clothing Crisis Pack, we expect you to have meaningful conversations with your clients and to help them access the most appropriate support for their situation. Helping families to maximise their income is usually the best way to support them, so that they can buy clothing themselves. You must ensure that all possible statutory funding has been explored and exhausted before making a referral to ESUB.
When referring a child/young person to our service, you must not give us any information that could identify them, such as their name or address. We will ask for basic information like their initials and day of birth (not their full date of birth) so that we can administer the application, but we do not hold identifying information.
In order to be considered as a Referral Partner you must be a professional employed in a school, social work, advice service, refuge or similar setting where you provide support to parents/carers or children/young people. You must know the family in a professional capacity and be able to demonstrate that each referral is for a child who faces significant disadvantage compared to their peers, and that an income maximisation approach is unworkable. We are unable to accept referrals from students on placement or those working in a short-term or informal capacity with families.
If you do not know the family’s circumstances well enough to be considered as a referral partner then please ask the family to contact their child’s school, social worker, housing officer or similar to make a referral to us.
Once you have given us your details on the next page, we will be in touch to discuss working together.
