Health

SACCS maximises the health and wellbeing of the children and young people in our care by promoting the SACCS Recovery Programme as a working model and methodology toward a pathway back to universal and mainstream support through either specialist family placement, fostering or independent living.

In order to achieve this, the Recovery Programme has now been reconciled to encapsulate and support the 5 Every Child Matters Outcomes and 7 Core Aims with our own more detailed 24 outcomes of recovery contained within 6 areas of development; Learning, Physical Development, Emotional Development, Attachment, Identity and Social and Communicative Development.

In this way, each child, following a comprehensive pre-admission needs assessment has, at the heart of their recovery plan as set out by the Individual Placement Agreement, a series of outcomes that are all focused on a programme of events designed to take the child along a pathway from its current behavioural and internalised state to a new more healthy and successful state. Every action, deed, feat, encounter and achievement in which a child is engaged is supported by their plan and the ability of a highly trained recovery team.

The achievement of good physical health and mental/emotional well-being, are all intrinsic, essential and fundamental to the success of the Recovery Programme to deliver the agreed outcomes for each child.

 

Future Development

The continual nature of the development of the SACCS Recovery Programme requires a constant assessment of the work that has been undertaken and the work that is currently being undertaken. 

For future development, SACCS is engaged in the commissioning of a longitudinal study with Keele University, into the work that has been completed over the last 20 years in order to gain an insight into the long- term outcomes of its work. In addition, SACCS is also engaged in additional research into the evaluation of its Recovery Programme itself to understand more fully, the working method and how it should be best applied.

Finally, SACCS is committed to further development to maximise the health and well being of the children and young people in our care by working closer and in partnership with local authorities in enabling commissioners and procurement teams to identify the very small number of children who would require Treatment Level 1 of the SACCS Recovery Programme.

 

How SACCS meets contractual requirements in terms of quality of provision

In order to deliver best practice outcomes for children in terms of maximising the health and well being of the children and young people in our care SACCS has developed the SACCS Recovery Programme to ensure compliance, observance and conformity to the National Contract through the Individual Placement Agreement.

By providing a model and method of applied techniques, SACCS looks to ensure the health and wellbeing of each child by working through each young person’s needs from the initial pre-assessment through the IPA, onto the Individual recovery plan throughout the residential term and beyond.  In this way, SACCS minimises procedural and professional drift and maximises our performance through agreed and repeatable practice.

Our quality is based on national standards and our own inspections that include not only the residential homes but an ongoing 3 monthly review of the progress of each child through a recorded and evidenced report.  Each report generates the next individual recovery plan for the following three months.

By using the Recovery Programme to ensure a healthy environment we ensure limited placement breakdown, with only a restricted and partial chance of failure.

 

Examples of everyday best practice

Everyday best practice within the context of the maximisation of health and well being of the children and young people in our care is as follows:

  • An integrated recovery pre-admission needs assessment that ensures the correct placement of each child in the most appropriate recovery environment;
  • An individual recovery plan for each child that is reviewed every 3 months to ensure that the aims of the recovery team, the local authority and the child are being met;
  • A daily plan for each child to ensure that the individual recovery plan is maintained to the most detailed level;
  • Individual Life Story and one to one Therapy to ensure that the child is able to make sense of their lives as part of the recovery process toward a healthy view of themselves;
  • Education, events, group work, tasks, holidays and visits including contact as part of the everyday recovery programme for each child;
  • The provision of consultants in Psychology and Psychiatry, Psychoanalysts and;
  • Access to local paediatric services; speech and language therapists and Occupational therapy.