Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
We ensure unaccompanied children are supported in respect of:
Interpreting services in line with mother language.
Engage them with legal representation for their asylum application.
Support them to attend the initial LAC medical giving regard to blood borne diseases.
Enlist them on ESOL/PRE-ESOL program of education depending on ability.
Provide around the clock support.
Support to open a bank account.
Engage with local services relevant to cultural background.
Have provisions within the divers community of the Sefton Park area of Liverpool.
Key work sessions supporting residents to be come fully ready for their independence.
Support their engagement with their relevance house of worship and provide, prayer mats, Korans and bibles as required.
Provide unlimited mobile data to allow contact with relevant others.
Support accessing specialist diets to include Halal products.
What We Provide
• The provision of basic needs such as food, clothing and a secure home;
• The provision of education and skills training;
• Enabling access to services;
• Nurturing and facilitating community and relationship-building;
• The provision of emotional and therapeutic support;
• and the provision of leisure activities, trips, and events.
Each of these support activities helps to reduce or prevent the negative impact of the risks previously outlined on young people’s outcomes. Through doing this, Rebuild NFSS intends not only to protect young people from poor outcomes in these areas, but also to help them fulfill their potential and become healthy and thriving members of their community.
Self contained flats
Self contained flat maybe the appropriate placement for a young person who has not succeeded in respect of replacements within a shared house setting. All flats are carefully designed to ensure that young people are able to feel safe and comfortable. support would be on floating support basis with 24/7 phone line support from staff based within the Hawthorne office.
High level support
High level support is for young people who require additional help and safeguarding and would be within 1 provision with on site staffing and waking night support. Whilst residents would have their own self contained one bedroom flat, there would be a staff office within the same building and additional safeguarding features to identify and respond two potential CSE or CE concerns.
Shared houses
A shared house would be for residents who feel more comfortable being supported within a group of peers with whom they can develop their social networks such a setting could respond to the potential for a child who has come into this country to feel less isolated and provides the additional support needed to allow them to develop whilst being supported through the asylum process.
When supporting children within the asylum process a bespoke support package is put in place based on the individual needs of the young person. This support must take into account language and cultural differences, vulnerabilities and individual need.
If We Sit, We Become Friends
We have learned that to sit by the fire and chat, network, dream, or simply be still in the moment are positive activities for human beings. In fact, the four basic needs as a human are all to be found in nature! If we know the basics, we have something on which to build.
Sadly, many people are denied these basic outdoor experiences that we all naturally had in the past. St Agnes Beacon is a Protected Landscape, namely A.O.N.B ( Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), S.S.I (Site of Scientific Interest ), a Site of Rare Flora, a World Heritage Site, a European Site of Significance and rates as Grade 1 for Country Walks.
This is a fantastic location to access the physical and therapeutic benefits of nature at its best.
Nature Deficit Disorder
The term ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ is used to point to some negative effects of spending less time in nature:(add space)Children have limited respect for their immediate natural surroundings.
Author Richard Louv believes that the effects of Nature Deficit Disorder on our children will be an even bigger problem in the future. “An increasing pace in the last three decades, approximately, of a rapid disengagement between children and direct experiences in nature…has profound implications, not only for the health of future generations but for the health of the Earth itself. The effects of Nature-Deficit Disorder could lead to our being at risk of having a shorter lifespan than our parents.
It’s a problem because kids who don’t get nature-time seem more prone to anxiety, depression and Attention Deficit problems”. (Richard Louv)
Troubled Families
The Troubled Families Programme is a programme of targeted intervention for families with multiple problems, including crime, anti-social behaviour, truancy, unemployment, mental health problems and domestic abuse. One aim of the Programme is to tackle issues before they require costlier interventions.