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To ensure the highest quality and safest support for the families we work with by providing our practitioners with dedicated specialist support that enables them to debrief and develop professionally.

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Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other

    Situation

    Our practitioners target the most hard to reach families and engage with them and their children, to help their children overcome their barriers to learning and reach their full potential. This funding will enable us to provide high quality practice supervision to our 150 practitioners who require this guidance and support to address the hardships, both emotional and practical, that they encounter so often in their roles. This work, although highly rewarding, can at times be emotionally draining especially when the workers have no person with whom to debrief. Our work involves addressing many difficult and sensitive issues, commonplace in the disadvantaged communities in which we work. In the schools where we work, we often find children who: - have had no breakfast most days - are late because no-one at home cared enough to get them up and out - have had to deal with a drunk, substance-misusing or violent parent - fall asleep at their desk after spending the night looking after a sick parent - have been bullied because their trousers are too short and their parent can’t afford a new pair - have not been on a school trip because their parents can’t fill in the form - have become unable to cope with their mentally ill parent. £25,000 will contribute to the overall £75,000 annual cost of the external sessional supervisors with the skills necessary to guide and support our workers effectively. Because they are neutral they are able to offer impartial advice and support that remains objective. The remaining funds for this are secured through the contributions made by schools, local authorities and trusts and foundations who are funding the individual workers. We now require the remaining portion to be able to offer this support to all of our workers.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Women & Girls Women & Girls
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)
    • Other Other