WELCOME TO THE HAVEN CHILDREN'S HOME
Welcome to skylarkcaresolutions
The Haven Children’s home is a care home within the wider organisation of Skylark Care Solutions Ltd. It offers a high quality living environment for children and young people offering a child centred approach which is tailored to meet their individual needs.
Aims and Objectives
1. Assisting children/young people to explore their own issues and experiences and work through any emotions and feelings which may become a barrier to a stable placement and future accommodation.
2. Working closely with families or substitute families to ensure that when children/young people return home or go to other suitable placements, adequate support via a transition plan is given to both the young person and their family to ensure success.
3. Providing appropriate levels of support that recognise, value and encourage children/young people to maintain personal skills and competencies and promote their confidence and self-esteem.
4. Provide age-appropriate independent living programmes to assist young people to be able to develop the necessary skills to enable them to, if appropriate, live independently.
5. Providing a comprehensive package of educational support to promote the best possible outcomes for children/young people within their educational setting.
6. Offering children/young people therapeutically informed interventions to assist them in achieving personal well being.
7. Providing children/young people with an individualised package of support that focuses on their assessed needs
The Haven Children’s Home will Provide
- We accommodate a purposeful care programme that is well-designed and executed and based on the individual assessed needs of each child/young person.
- Encouragement to children/young people to lead a normal and independent life and to participate in local community facilities. The home will create an atmosphere in which young people are encouraged to make decisions of their own choice in a safe environment.
- The Haven Children’s Home will develop a partnership approach to working with parents/carers.
- A Key Working system providing a member of staff with specific responsibilities for each child/young person.
- The promotion and development of social and self-care skills.
- Through a robust transition process, support to achieve a successful move on or rehabilitation within their own family.
- Transport to visit families and promotion of contact.
- They are signposting to counselling, advocacy and mediation.
- Support to enable children and young people to have a voice, choice and control whilst respecting their personal dignity and emotional wellbeing.