Children Support Services | Young People Support Services
About Secure Lives Children Service
Secure Lives provides exceptional accommodation as well as key support to children and young people aged fifteen up to eighteen years.
A defining characteristic of Secure Lives is providing secure attachment and safety for children and young people in all areas of their lives, in repairing past hurt and harm that may have preceded their arrival at Secure Lives.
The ethos around Secure Lives Children Service house is therapeutic in design, to help the children and young people to recover from their traumatic past through trauma-informed and attachment-based practice.
Secure Lives considers that children and young people’s difficult and challenging behaviours as well as offending behaviour are, in most instances, the result of unresolved trauma and early childhood adversity.
To this end therefore children and young people who are in Secure Lives’ property will receive;
- A presumption of support to identify and address early childhood trauma and adversity, known and unknown,
- Psycho-social screening, assessment and intervention, with appropriate permissions from parents, caregivers or corporate parents,
- An educational assessment, planning learning programme for all children and young people or support in entering training or employment,
- Support to access family where it is deemed appropriate or experience surrogate families,
- And a safe, trusting environment, where the children and young people are able to exercise age-appropriate choice, control and pursue mutual goals with us as a service.
Our vision, mission and values
Children Support Services | Young People Support Services
Care
We care about children, young people and our staff. We know that trusting relationships transform lives, and our staff and carers work to promote positive relationships with children, young people, and their families and friends. We are always looking to improve how we work together within Secure Lives and how we work with our commissioners and supporters.
Respect
We are respectful of every individual, and value the strengths in everyone. Our approach is founded on a commitment to individual human rights. We value our teams for what they bring and the way they support children and young people to be who they want to be.
Honest
We are honest about what we can do, and optimistic about the future. We don’t promise what we can’t deliver, and we strive to achieve more.
Flexibility
We are flexible and agile so that we can be fit for the future. We do everything we can to respond to the individual and changing needs of the young people we look after, and to respond to what each of our commissioners want us to deliver.
Professional
We are professional and committed to reflection and continuous learning. We have high standards, and we learn and improve by reflecting together.
Creative /Consideration
We are creative, and passionate about positive change. The best insights into how to create change come when we listen to children and young people. We do things together and have fun together so that we can create energy and enthusiasm for change. We are innovative, push boundaries, and use data and evidence to continually improve.
Secure Lives is run by qualified and experienced personnel who are hardworking, compassionate and professional.
Staff has best interest of young people at heart.
Staff at the centre keep young people at the centre of their practice, help them grow their self-belief, and prepare them for reintegration into the community.