Assessment Centres

Our Centres

For families that need 24/7 support and assessment, we have a number of cutting edge Family Assessment Centres, with the option of semi-independence flats to help prepare families for life after their assessment.

Our centres provide:

1. Our centres provide:
2. Full ParentAssess assessment completed by a Social Work Qualified
3. Access to bespoke therapeutic support for Parent/s
4. 24/7 CCTV monitoring
5. Semi-Independent living arrangement (Ideal for ‘step-down/step-through’ of families with lower supervision/monitoring needs.
6. Designated Assessor completes Strengths and Concerns – this will feed into the ongoing progression of the Support and Development Plan
7. Progress review meetings at 2 weeks, 6 weeks, and 10 weeks – this will allow for timely identification and management of areas of concern.
8. Weekly Support and Development meeting between Designated Assessor and Parent
9. Designated Assessor will complete a minimum of six observations of child and parent
10. Brief weekly progress report sent to Local Authority Social Worker

Semi-Independence Options

In addition to the family rooms in our centres, we have self-contained semi-independent apartments, situated on onsite. The apartments contain a kitchenette/dining area, lounge area and separate bedrooms space for families.

Each apartment has CCTV at the entrance only and not throughout the apartments, therefore the semi-independent apartments are suitable for families who have fewer complex needs and are risk assessed as not requiring full CCTV monitoring. Families occupying the apartments will have support and development plans, therapeutic support, an allocated key worker and assessing social worker. They will also be able to access the inhouse activity programme for families. Though families in the apartments will be in a self-contained environment, staff will encourage all families to utilise communal areas.

The semi-independent accommodation can be utilised as a valuable training environment, it is also an ideal environment for families who may have received a successful parenting capacity assessment and require progressive transition to living independently or require additional support with their parenting skills before they move into their own accommodation. This may also be an appropriate environment where shorter periods of assessment are completed on behalf of local authorities.