Our Services
We accept both professional and private referrals.
Contact Supervision
Generally referrals will usually be made by the local authority, another child contact centre, a court, CAFCASS or by a self referral. Our staff can facilitate contact at your local centre or within the community.
Our supervised contact supports physical safety and emotional wellbeing of a child whilst they have contact with their non-resident parent. We can help to re-establish contact when there has been a significant time lapse of no contact. We can assist parents in building and sustaining positive relationships between themselves and their child.
We accept both professional and private referrals.
Contact Supervision
Generally referrals will usually be made by the local authority, another child contact centre, a court, CAFCASS or by a self referral.
Parenting Support
Providing extra support to parents and carers to help them meet the needs of their child, enabling a more positive family relationship to blossom. We want to ensure that the children and families we provide our services to achieve the best they can.
Our parenting programmes are flexible, family focused and develop positive parenting skills and supportive family relationships, reducing the number of children who are subject to child protection plans and further enable children and young people to remain living safely within the family home.
Supported Contact
Supported contact is a low level of supervision of a child by safe adults whilst the child/ children have contact with a non resident family member.
Supported contacts takes place in a variety of neutral community venues where there are facilities to enable children to develop and maintain positive relationships with non-resident parents and family members. are facilities to enable children to develop and maintain positive relationships with non-resident parents and family members.
Family Support
Our family support workers will deliver a range of evidence based interventions through a variety of methods, including 1:1 work with individual family members and intensive outreach working with the whole family.
Fragile Placements
Holding hands provides 24hr intervention targeted at children/young people who are already in the care system but with a placement that has broken down.
We can provide accommodation and a team of workers to safeguard the child/young person whilst a new placement is found; this service is bespoke to the needs of the young person/child.
Transportation for young people and children
Holding hands understands the importance of children and young people arriving safely and on time. For example, to and from contact supervision, school runs or to a new placement, or transportation from a police station.
Welfare Checks
Leaving Care Programme
Our family support workers will deliver a range of evidence based interventions through a variety of methods, including 1:1 work with individual family members and intensive outreach working with the whole family.
Holding hands helps to organise a plan to make transition from care to independent living as smooth as possible.
This includes helping young people in the following areas:
- Accommodation
- Education and training
- Financial support
- Support in developing relationships
- Life skills
- Access to support for health including neutral health contingency plans for support if independent living breaks down.
Every young person on the leaving care programme will have their very own personal advisor who will work with them on a 1:1 basis.
Our personal advisors work closely with social workers providing regular updates and updating the young person’s pathway plan every 6 months.