Putting children at the centre of all we do
In all our homes, SWEC team members are well trained and experienced, putting the children and young people in their care at the centre of all they do.
We work with local education providers and local authorities, to ensure attendance at school, college or other suitable provision, that best meets the needs of the young person in our care. Where necessary, SWEC also provide tuition from qualified teachers, for those children not accessing education, until a suitable placement can be found.
Personalised Support
By providing personalised support to meet the needs of each individual, SWEC enable children to develop trusting relationships and, build the key skills, strength and resilience, to promote their personal wellbeing and a secure future.
Each SWEC home has a staff team developed to help meet the specific needs of each child. We work with the young person and professionals that support them, to ensure the best opportunities are accessed and enhanced, to help each child realise their potential.
Our Trauma Recovery Model (TRM)
Trauma comes in many forms and the effects are far reaching, and every child is different in their experience and response. The children and young people in our care will have suffered extensive trauma and recovery will take time. For many children, recognition of the effects of chaotic or unsafe early lives is painful and, without support, are unable to heal.
Our Trauma Recovery Model (TRM) depicts SWEC's approach to trauma recovery and how we support young people through their individual journeys. Every child deserves to thrive and this model’s approach allows individualised care and support for this to happen, with facilitation from our highly trained and devoted staff teams.
Our TRM was created as a synthesis of models, informed by the body of work of Dr B Perry; PACE (Hughes); trauma informed parenting (National Child Traumatic Stress Network); attachment aware support (Mead, Treisman and others); and Person Centred practice (Rogers). The drop downs below are not an exhaustive list: Every person is individual, with individual needs, manifestations and recovery strategies.
- Neglect
- Induced illness
- Abuse
- Bullying
- Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Domestic violence
- Child sexual exploitation/trafficking
- Parental substance misuse
- Assault
- Non-acceptance of sexuality or gender
- Parental mental health
- SEND
- Lack of trust
- Withdrawal
- Sexualised behaviour
- Inability to focus
- Self-harm
- Fictitious illness
- Dysregulation
- Aggression
- Non-conformality
- Hypersensitivity
- PTSD & CPTSD
- Low self-worth
- Attachment disorder
- Violence
- Suicidal ideation
- Belonging
- Outdoor and adventurous activities
- Interest
- Child centred transitions
- Love
- Therapeutic parenting
- Therapy
- Life-story work
- Genuine praise
- Affirmation
- Education
- Self-help sessions
- High expectations
- Consistent care
- Continual assessment
- Working with mental health professionals
- Identification of need
- Empathy
- Focused one-to-ones
- Use of journey graphs
- Real-world experience
- Step-down
- Greater independence
- Transition plans
- Reflection of needs
- Celebration
- Opportunity
- Friends and family
- Consistency
- Reflection
- Reinforcement
- Responsibility
- Support continuation
Our Promises
Our promises to the children and young people we support is that we will:
- Listen to you and keep you safe
- Support you to attend and achieve within education
- Ensure you have access to services and support
- Support you emotionally, socially and academically
- Challenge you to reach your potential
- Advocate for you
- Provide extra support and therapeutic input, to support you and aid your progress
- Draw up care plans with you and your social work team, and ensure these are monitored and evaluated
Supported by Held Heath
SWEC is supported by Dr Antony Crabb and colleagues at Held Health, a specialist, multi-disciplinary team of child and adolescent psychiatrists, psychologists, family therapists, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists and, educational psychologists.
Held Health’s specialist teams work with SWEC, to support colleagues to better understand and navigate the mental health, autism and ADHD needs, of the children and young people in our care.
- Social WorkerAs I left your beautiful home today I felt many emotions ranging from relief and happiness, and I realised that if I was feeling like that X must be feeling similar and more. I am so relieved that your team has chosen to have X. You are a wonderful group of professionals and humans clearly trying to make a difference to young peoples lives.