Family Support Services
If your child has come to the attention of the Children’s Services with a concern of suffering significant harm, we will help to work with you, Children’s Services and other stakeholders to ensure that children are safeguarded from familial and contextual harm to ensure their safety and management of assessed and unassessed risks.
Children Safeguarding
If a child has come to the attention of the Children’s Services with a concern of suffering significant harm, we will work with families, Children’s Services and other stakeholders in a co-productive manner to ensure that children are safeguarded from assessed and unassessed risks, enhance capacity to manage risks and meet needs within a family unit and community environment. This involves ensuring that different stakeholders’ rights and responsibilities are specified and fulfilled.
We will offer support to children and families within the Child Protection or Care Proceedings arena to ensure that parents and families are supported to safeguard children and care for them. We will help in monitoring and managing risks.
We will advocate for children and parents as well as help and provide children and families requisite support ranging from practical needs, supporting families within meetings, enabling community support, assessments, contact supervision, welfare visits, and direct work for children within safeguarding and legal arena.
Crisis Intervention
Crisis intervention is an immediate and short-term emergency response to mental, emotional, physical, and behavioral distress. We will help you to positively manage the critical moments so that the crisis subsides and does not become worse. Our workers will undertake welfare visits and support with practical issues to ensure the resolution of crises
A crisis can present in different forms such as trauma, a natural disaster, mental illness, medical illness, victimisation, grief, or relationship changes. A crisis can be difficult for anybody to cope with, and many times crises are recurring situations for an individual suffering from mental illness or a substance use disorder. These are known as toxic trio in social work language basically referring to mental health, alcohol, and drug abuse, and domestic violence-related problems which could be triggers for social work involvement.
A person’s inability to cope with a crisis may present itself with the following signs such as hopelessness, irritability, conflicting behaviour, denial, depression, anxiety, and much more.
If you or anyone you know is suffering from a crisis get in contact to see how we can help. Our professional and fully qualified team can provide bespoke assessments and solutions.
Contact Supervision
Supervised contact is necassary for children and families within child protection and legal arena where there are risks of significant harm or various forms of abuse. This is important as a means to promoting identity, maintaining and building relationships, and rehabilitation when neccessary. Supervised contact means that someone independent will remain present at all times when a parent is having contact with his or her child.
Supervised contact can be an option when there has been high conflict between the parents sometimes witnessed by the children, where there has been domestic abuse, or a Child Arrangements or Contact Order or a conviction relating to domestic abuse.
Our experienced and qualified team can provide supervision and a safe space for parents and children to meet within a confined place or within the community so as to manage risk but at the same time promote identity and relations. Contact will be managed in a child-focused manner and in the best interest of children. We will write observation notes and can write court reports if and when required.We can help with deciding on the ground rules for supervised contact before the first visit, the do’s and don’ts need to be clear to both parents so that contact does not breakdown because of miscommunication. We will find out or provide information about local contact centres and the centre that best suits your needs and much more if community contact is not regarded safe.
Community Enabling
We offer a variety of enabling and respite opportunities for domiciliary care and children in care. This may include 1-1 support or “shared support” for people wishing to participate in activities with friends and peers. We provide support to access a variety of community based activities such as attending sporting events, visiting local places of interest and attending group based activities or training.
Enabling support can also include assistance with managing finances, attending appointments and with other individual needs. Our team provide specialist enabling support for people living with Dementia who may require support at home or with accessing the community.
We offer a variety of Respite support options. If requested, we can provide “respite” support within the family home and support people with short breaks and holidays.
We have the capacity to built excellent local networks and ensure that the people we support have the opportunity to be fully involved and included within their communities. To find out more about the support we offer, please contact us using the button below.
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Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, feedback, or suggestions regarding our services and staff. Our team of care experts will be happy to get in touch with you.