Day Services

Kibble’s Day Services provide the support needed to maintain educational placements for young people who live at home or in local authority care. Each young person’s allocated key worker supports them closely throughout the placement. Key workers meet regularly with teaching staff and work co-operatively to develop strategies to promote the balance of social and emotional wellbeing with educational achievement. Often, highly personalised packages are created and implemented.

Standard Day Services Package

Personalised Care:

• Pre-placement visit involving young person and family
• Home visits at times of crisis
• Routine home visits
• Daily phone calls and weekly reports
• Buddying and mentoring
• Help for families at times of crisis
• Key working (regular key time with key worker)
• Parenting support, coaching and guidance
• Use of Snoezelen Room (supported by a grant from Children in Need) to soothe and calm

Activities:

• “Playtime” (planned, unstructured, therapeutic play)
• Camping trips and other sustainable pro-social activities
• Fishing club

Over and above the standard Day Services' daily family contact, there is a range of services available from which an individually-tailored package can be established.

These services can include any of the following:

• Evening/weekend work with the young person by their key worker. This can be activity-based, Programmes-based, or simply extended time with the key worker
• Family work, where the key worker spends time helping damaged family relationships
• Temporary respite within one of Kibble’s other services
• Wrap-around on-call service for young people and their families/carers
• Community-based diversions from residential and secure care