Patrick Mercer MP
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Patrick Mercer MP, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Newark took up a placement with Flintshire charity Save the Family.
Patrick Mercer MP took up the Inner City Challenge, immersing himself in the charity working, with some of Britain’s most damaged families.
From Tuesday 17 - Thursday 19 March 2009, Patrick Mercer was on the placement programme devised by former Conservative Party Leader Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP.
Patrick Mercer MP’s placement was at Save the Family, a charity that has worked with tens of thousands of homeless families. The charity runs a small village of quality housing where it provides accommodation for women who have been living in sheds, skips, cars and bed and breakfast accommodation. They help women with cooking, literacy, anger management and parenting skills; restoring children to their mothers from care and sometimes absent fathers. The rebuilt family are stabilised then moved to housing in the community.
Patrick Mercer MP, who was educated at Oxford University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and worked for BBC Radio 4, helped in the ‘cooking on a budget’ class, house work and school run routines, and a basic life skills course during the three days that he spent with families and the charity staff.
