Community Care – The Excellence Network
SPONSORS
Community Care thank all our sponsors for supporting the launch of this new initiative.
4Social Work and Public Sector Staffing specialise in recruiting for social care professionals, administration and secretarial staff for public, private and voluntary sectors. Our team has over 15 years management experience ensuring the highest levels of service to all clients and candidates. We aim to build long-term collaborative relationships with our service users.
Telephone No: 0845 604 4445
Email Address: enquiries@4socialwork.com
Website: www.4socialwork.com
Hillcrest Care Ltd provide residential care - with very high standards of education in support of our children’s homes – and we offer foster care on a national basis. We have recently become involved in the provision of education for children with ASD, which was a natural corollary for our services. We continue to develop working partnerships with local authorities, and we continue to strive to meet the ever-increasing expectations of our local authority customers and the regulators. We also achieve some outstanding outcomes for the young people we look after.
There is little doubt that the standards of provision for looked-after children have improved enormously over the past 5 to 10 years. Most local authorities – certainly in the case of residential child care – have realised that their role is increasing one of purchasing, rather than providing, these services. They chose to encourage the development of a marketplace, which will give them value for money, and sufficiency of choice to meet al the needs of their looked-after children. Some of the improvements in partnership working and commissioning practice – particularly the establishment of consortia and the encouragement of a select list of preferred providers – have improved things enormously. Although lagging behind on the changes in residential care, I see a similar pattern emerging in the provision of foster care services – with the independent sector taking an increasing share of the foster care market, and local authorities becoming more expert in their commissioning strategies. All of these activities are set against the background of improved regulation and higher minimum standards to best protect the interests of each individual child. I don’t think we are there yet – budget constraints and the pressures of internal vested interests, still conspire against ensuring the best for every looked-after child - but I do see a rate of improvement which will continue.
Telephone No: 01243 839411
Email Address: head.office@hillcrestcare.co.uk
Website: www.hillcrestcare.co.uk
We at Keys Childcare are very proud to sponsor The Excellence Network.
As the largest provider of therapeutically focused residential, fostering, education and consultancy solutions in and across the UK, Keys Childcare is especially well placed to recognize innovation at the “sharp end” and contribute positively to the national drive for improved and measureable placement outcomes.
Keys believe the excellence and innovation in service delivery should now come as standard for all providers of social care.
The Excellence Network provides a platform for progressive providers and practitioners to showcase their work and share the cutting edge practice which is crucial in shaping truly client led social care.
Telephone No: 02890 794055 (office) 07918 716319 (referrals)
Email Address: peteroneill@keyschildcare.co.uk
Website: www.keyschildcare.co.uk
“because every child is individual…”
northerncare are delighted to again be part of The Excellence Network.
Established in 1999, northerncare's portfolio of homes stretches across the country offering a seamless service of the very best in care and DCSF registered on-site education.
northerncare currently provide 28 residential children’s homes with education for young people aged between 5 and 19, with emotional, social and behavioural difficulties. Specialist services include working with vulnerable girls at risk from exploitation and self-harm, attachment disorders, offending behaviours, comprehensive assessments overseen by a clinical psychologist and therapeutic programmes addressing harmful sexual behaviour.
The tailor-made packages for each young person placed with northerncare and significant partnerships with local authorities across the country have seen northerncare become the provider of choice for residential care and education.
Telephone No: 0800 040 7870
Email Address: enquiries@northern-care.co.uk
Website: www.northern-care.co.uk
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