Services For Children With Disabilities And Complex Needs
Our Family Support Workers provide short-term crisis intervention to families in need. We offer welfare and support visits, respite care in the family home, sit-ins, and engage children in positive activities. Our services are available to families with a wide range of complex needs, including mental health issues, learning disabilities, drug and alcohol problems, domestic abuse, physical disabilities, young parents, parents whose children are at risk of harm outside the family home, and parents with children who have complex and challenging behaviours.
We believe that consistency and matching the right Family Support Workers with families is key to bringing about the desired change. Our approach is to provide tailored support that responds to the family’s specific needs and aligns with the Local Authority’s care plans. We strongly believe in working collaboratively and in partnership with Local Authorities and other agencies to help families navigate difficult situations while ensuring that children are safeguarded from any forms of harm.
Our FSW workers have background training in Child Protection and Safeguarding, Child Development, and Working with Challenging Families, and receive regular supervision from an experienced Social Work Team Manager. We attend safeguarding and child protection meetings and produce quality and detailed reports that feed into LA assessments for families undergoing Child Protection, Public Law Outline, or care proceedings.
We strongly believe that every contact our Family Support Workers have with families should make a positive difference and add value to children and families’ daily lived experiences.
1. Targeted Short Breaks Support.
At FSPCare, we understand that parents and carers of children and young people living with disabilities or special educational needs may need to take a break from their caring responsibilities to recharge their batteries. The children or young people may also need other enjoyable leisure activities away from their carers, which promotes their personal and social development and self-esteem. We provide respite care in the family home or the community. We take a whole family approach as we understand that the needs of a disabled child can impact the other children. We provide 24/7 be-friending and sitting-in services to give carers a break from caring responsibilities.
2. Personal Care
Our Support Workers provide carers with 24/7 personal care support to children with complex medical care needs.
This includes:
- support with children’s Daily Personal Care such as washing, cleaning, cooking and meal preparation
- Support with eating, drinking
- toileting,
- shopping,
- assistance with moving and handling
- help with medication, etc.).
3. Practical Parenting Support
- Providing parenting support to help parents manage some of the challenging behaviours.
- Practical guidance, teaching and modelling of positive behaviour strategies
- Assistance with escorting children to school
- Assistance with morning or evening routines
- Assistance with supporting children in attending social activities in the community.
- Assisting new and young parents who may need additional parenting support to reduce isolation and supporting young parents to attend community-based parenting support groups.
4. Emotional Support
At Family Support and Partnership Care, we provide services to families where parents may be experiencing a crisis, mental health problems, grief, and the day-to-day challenges of managing and caring for children with additional needs or parents with a newborn child. Our Family Support Workers are there to befriend, listen to, and support parents to help them navigate some of their lives complex and challenging situations.
5. Children and young people at risk of coming into care.
Family Support and Partnership Care is a service that helps families prevent further problems, manage crises, and reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect. We aim to keep children out of Local Authority Care by offering our services to parents who may be experiencing mental health crises and those whose children have complex and challenging behaviours.
Our Family Support Workers (FSW) provide support within the home, respite care, and sit-ins to de-escalate family conflicts. They also engage young people in positive activities. If a breakdown occurs and children require alternative placements, we facilitate the move and help them settle in their new environment.
We believe that every family has strengths and solutions to its problems. Our FSWs tap into these strengths and help families develop solutions. We offer crisis intervention support to prevent children from entering care. However, our primary model of intervention is solution-focused. This means we focus on the strengths and resources of families whose children are on the verge of entering care.
Rather than dwelling on problems that the families are already aware of and grappling with, we believe it’s more helpful to help families focus on their existing strengths. Our Family Support Workers help families reach their desired goals and future outcomes. For example, getting young persons back into education and training, engaging them in positive activities, and diverting them from activities that put them at risk of all forms of exploitation.
6. High Quality Reports.
Our Family Support Workers are trained to provide good-quality reports and summaries of their work with children and families. These reports can be used by the Local Authorities as part of the evidence.
Contact Us
- 124 City Road London EC1V 2NX
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07535016221
07950108914 - admin@fspcare.co.uk
