When we said we needed help with recruitment and letting people know what the benefits of working for St Michael’s are, our deputy manager, Hannah said she’d help. She works in one of our Family Assessment Centres and wants more people to know how important the work...
The newest service manager at one of our family residential assessment centres talks about what it’s like working at St Michael’s. Kate Hopkins has been a social worker for 8 years in South London working for both Croydon and Lambeth councils. She had...
Why we don’t take emergency referrals We get asked if we take emergency referrals for our residential centres a lot. The short answer is no. But we can turn a referral around very quickly if we have good information and cooperation from the local authority and...
A new sensory play room has been created in one of our residential assessment centres for vulnerable families. We are so proud of the effort the team put into make it for the children and parents they work with. We know play is important for children, babies and their...
Here’s some of the great feedback we had from the dads that took part in our first Caring Dads of 2019. Did you enjoy Caring Dads? “I did enjoy the group work. For the first day it was a bit like boring but after the first session I begin to love it.” “No...
When Yatta started working for us as a sessional, she didn’t realise how much working for us would impact on her future work as a social worker. Yatta applied to be a sessional worker in our residential family assessment centres in 2014 when she was in her final year...
