“Our children’s social care system is a 30-year-old tower of Jenga held together with Sellotape: simultaneously rigid and yet shaky,” Josh MacAlister, chair of the recent independent review of Children’s Social Care in England, wrote in the report. He told the BBC, ...
Working with parents with Learning Disabilities One of our centre managers, Kate, explains recent achievements. A key area this year is our work with parents with learning disabilities. We have implemented many practice changes in this area that have enabled us to...
A meeting with Rush, runner of Marathons and many longer events! Rush is our veteran marathon runner. Every year he runs the London Marathon for St Michael’s and helps to raise thousands of pounds to support families. Like so many others, Rush was gutted when the...
Parents suffering the impact of childhood or even adult trauma can be hard to work with. The parents can come across as angry, aggressive, not present and uncaring. There is a lot of push and pull in these relationships. They want your help, and then they are pushing...
Elaine Gaskell, Head of Outreach, explains the thinking behind our work with young parents. The Outreach theory of change is based Upon Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need . We believe that for young parents to choose to work with us, we must first understand what is most...
