About Us

Mission

Kibble exists to provide a stable, purposeful, safe and happy environment for young people in trouble. It aims to be a placewhere:

“Pupils and staff live and work together in a spirit of trust, mutual respect and co-operation. By investing in people and setting high standards of work and behaviour, individuals and teams develop their full potential in learning, changing and growing”.

Vision

Kibble aims to be at the forefront of effective and innovative services for young people in trouble.

Values

Kibble will conduct its activities with dedication, integrity and honesty. All goals will be reached ethically and morally. It recognises its place in the wider community and obligation to be a good neighbour. 

Displaying a complex mix of social, emotional, educational and behavioural problems, many of the young people in our care have slipped through the safety nets provided by a range of early intervention programmes.  Kibble aims to provide them with a foundation of safety, structure, stability and success, replacing the chaotic lifestyles, limited education and disadvantage that they have experienced with the possibility of a brighter future.

In recent years Kibble has developed a range of specialist child-focused services to help young people with problems, encompassing the areas of child welfare, youth justice and mental health.  These services are Intensive Residential Care, Intensive Day and Community Services, Full Secondary Education, Specialist Intervention Services, Intensive Fostering, Employment Training and Transitions and an 18-place Secure Unit with Education.  Our 17.5 acre campus in Paisley is open 24/7 with a multi-disciplinary staff of over 500. 

Kibble’s unique advantage is its capacity to provide an integrated array of specialist services from one single site.

Local authorities refer young people from across Scotland on a fee-for-service basis. Today, Kibble is firmly established as a social enterprise with approximately 94% of turnover derived from earned income.  The training and employment needs of young people post-16 are met by our KibbleWorks portfolio of social enterprises, offering real work experience in real businesses.

In 2010 the Scottish Government commissioned research into social enterprise and chose Kibble for a case study as one of Scotland’s most successful social enterprises - “Evaluating the Success Factors for Establishing a Thriving Social Enterprise in Scotland(www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/11/23094433/1).