We are pleased to announce the opening of our innovative new Therapeutic Education provision in Somerset, offering places for children and young people with additional and SEND needs. This initiative is part of a Strategic Partnership between Shaw Trust, Somerset Council, and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The partnership won the Innovation in Partnerships’ category at Municipal Journal Award (MJ) Award in 2023 for its work. The MJ awards is the biggest National annual awards ceremony for local government. https://youtu.be/a-F7KulnEh8Download transcriptThe service will
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Developing resilience on the journey to paid employment
Our supported internship programme offers young people aged 16 – 24 with an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) a chance to undertake three work placements across a year.
Supported Interns shine at Steps into work graduation
Max found his confidence and passion for the rail industry through Shaw Trust’s Supported Internship program. Find out about his inspiring story of overcoming challenges and landing his dream job!
Max’s supported internship journey: Overcoming challenges and landing his dream job
Max found his confidence and passion for the rail industry through Shaw Trust’s Supported Internship program. Find out about his inspiring story of overcoming challenges and landing his dream job!
Supporting young people with disabilities in finding fulfilling careers
Tilak completed three placements at Thames Hospice, Five Guys and German Kebab as part of his Supported Internship. Once he completed the internship Tilak continued to receive support from his job coach and the wider team in his search for paid employment.
178 exams sat at Feltham Young Offenders Institute
Feltham Young Offenders Institute is often in the news. The offenders held there have committed serious crimes and are marginalised from society. However, at Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to a future and we work in partnership with our Youth Custody Service colleagues providing education to the boys. The majority of the boys have had a poor relationship with education in the past and engaging them takes patience and understanding. 50% of students at Feltham are assessed
Can an advert change anything?
Last year when John Lewis’s Christmas ad came out it won our hearts with a man learning to skateboard so he could connect with his new foster daughter. It made us cry, smile and want to care. But did John Lewis’s Christmas advert have an impact on the foster care system and the children waiting for a foster family in the run up to festive season? While hopes were raised by an immediate uptick in enquiries, Shaw Trust’s Fostering2Inspire Manager, Kathy Hamilton
Why aren’t we fixing it if it’s broken?
Yesterday the LGA published a report noting children’s social care costs are rocketing, with a 1,000% increase in the cost of care for society’s most vulnerable children requiring complex care. Shaw Trust knows that the children’s care system is broken. In England we have seen the number of complex cases and specialist requirements for children in care grow to 82,170, more than 4,000 additional children since the pandemic. But – in Somerset our partnership led by Somerset Council and the NHS
Somerset young people win national award
On Wednesday 25 October, young people involved in our Homes and Horizons project won the A National Voice Collaboration Award for their work. Homes and Horizons is our residential, fostering and education partnership with Somerset Council and the NHS. The young people involved were all members of Somerset’s two care experienced peer groups, one for children currently living in care and the other peer group for care leavers. Along with the Somerset project lead the young people travelled to London
Pioneering a new approach to children’s social care in Somerset
The children’s care system is broken.While there are staff across the country going the extra mile to provide children with the best possible support they need, it’s obvious to anyone connected to children’s social care or leading local authority services that the system isn’t working.Pre-pandemic, services nationally were creaking under pressure as we supported 78,150 children in 2019; post pandemic, the number of complex cases and specialist requirements for children in care has grown by 5% to 82,170, more than