Company Website: www.solacecaregroup.co.uk
Contact: Dale Firkins
Position: Responsible Individual
Telephone: 07876 706964
Email: Dale@solaceforchildren.org
Type of Provision: Registered Children's Home
Total number of children’s homes & other services: 2
Total number of registered beds: 7
Size range of homes: 3-bedded & 4-bedded
Age range on admission: 10 - 17 years
Specialist services: The homes specialise in E.B.D. The staff team have vast amount of experience working in many different settings and have experience of mental health needs, self-harm, depression, anxiety, complex needs and trauma informed practice. The experience comes from settings such as school, therapeutic children’s homes, outreach work, supported living, YOT, mentoring. Management and staffs have experience and trainings related to therapeutic care and mental health, and this background filters through the homes. Social Pedagogy, being a holistic approach towards children's learning and care.
Therapeutic provision: Some of our homes adhere to a therapeutic approach, which is based on their model of care, when when considering the needs of each individual child.
Description:
Solace Care Group aims to provide high quality of care and support services through a range of resources, in order to support children and young people to enable them to be the best version of themselves.
The organisation aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children and young people, based on the premise that their needs and welfare are paramount and should be met in a person-centred way. Solace Care Group always takes into account and supports the emotional, behavioural, religious, ethnic, cultural and linguistic needs and background of all whom use our services.
Our homes are a ‘Home Away from Home’ for each child who is in our care.
Our ethos and the vision of our organization is for our homes to be a Centre of Excellence which are child focused and friendly in everything that we do, while providing the highest quality of care in achieving outstanding outcomes- for children, staff, families and the community. And we believe in leading our Solace Care Group team to share our passion.
In accordance with our ethos our homes provide a service which is extremely child focused. Our child centred practices are friendly where the focus is on providing a service which is holistic in nature. All our outcomes are children focused in order to keep children safe and to help them enjoy and achieve in a positive way. We believe that children should leave us better than when they first come to us. We aim to support and enrich each child to work towards their dreams, whilst creating happy memories with them through their journey with us.
We go above and beyond to ensure that we are working towards making a positive difference in every child’s life. Our therapeutic approach and model of care is embedded within all aspects of our service delivery within the homes and the organisation.
We emulate the culture and values of excellent homes by always aiming high and achieving the best for the children whom we care for.
On a daily basis we continue to strive to work towards making a child’s life better than what it was the previous day.
