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Mary Walsh Institute

'Delivering training, consultancy and research based on the SACCS Recovery Programme to improve outcomes for traumatised children'.

Our aim has always been to give children a voice and to help prepare them for the future. Our work is dedicated to helping children recover from the trauma imposed on them, and we recognise that for this to happen, the right combination of love, understanding, appropriate boundaries and therapeutic intervention is necessary.

Over the years, SACCS has developed into a leading provider of childcare treatment services by recognising that the child's needs always come first.

Aims

The Institute's task is to promote and influence excellence in child care and treatment practice in the UK and beyond.

Amongst it's present activities: 

  • The Institute delivers the SACCS/NEWI (North East Wales Institute) Foundation Degree in Therapeutic Child Care to the entire ‘front-line' SACCS child care workforce, to ensure that all those charged with the responsibility of delivering recovery to the children placed at SACCS are fully trained and professionally equipped to carry out their essential tasks.
  • Mary Walsh Institute continues to work in partnership with NEWI (North East Wales Institute) and will be introducing a BA in Therapeutic Child Care in partnership with the University of Wales in September 2007. To compliment our academic portfolio, Mary Walsh Institute, alongside our partners at the Liverpool Hope University, will be presenting an MA in Therapeutic Child Care from September 2007.
  • We will continue to deliver courses designed to enhance professional practice, practice which is enriched through SACCS practice experience over the past 20 years. These courses are proving to be beneficial to those that attend and we will extend the scope, subject material and accreditation over the next year.
  • Research and Consultancy will develop over the next year in partnership with other professional and academic bodies, as these are confirmed notifications will be made through our respective internet sites.
  • Mary Walsh Institute will also present conferences over the next year based on ‘developing insight', the first insight will focus on sex and sex education for children in public care.

Objective

The Mary Walsh Institute will become a Centre of Excellence, incorporating academic and vocational training, consultation and independent research. We will continue to develop links with professional agencies and academic learning centres to ensure best practice and quality outcomes.

Partnerships

SACCS is currently working with the following Academic Centres of Excellence:

NEWI (North East Wales Institute)

NEWI (University of Wales) have worked closely with SACCS and the Mary Walsh Institute for over 10 years. NEWI's Mission is;

To provide quality higher education and research in a welcoming, friendly and supportive environment to meet individual, local national and international needs.

Liverpool Hope University

Liverpool Hope University and the Mary Walsh Institute have worked collaboratively over the last year on the new MA in Therapeutic Child Care. Liverpool Hope University's Mission includes:

To provide opportunities for well rounded personal development, educating the whole person in mind, body and spirit, irrespective of age, social or ethnic origins or physical capacity, including in particular those who might otherwise not have had the opportunity to enter higher education; to contribute to the educational, religious, cultural, social and economic life of Liverpool, Merseyside, the North - West and beyond.