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Celebrating 20 years of success
Published in Children Now In 2007 the remarkable story of SACCS unfolds as it celebrates 20 years of working successfully with some of the country’s most traumatised children and young people,...
Raising the standards of Services for traumatised children
Following a year where we celebrated our 20th birthday with gusto, it might be thought that this year, the year of our coming of age is even more exciting. With our characteristic passion and...
'Flying Colours' – SACCS new fostering service
This spring we are embarking on an exciting new fostering service, and opening up SACCS services so that we can offer them to a wider range of children. The new company will be called 'Flying...
Cultural shift to improve outcomes for children
Published in Children Now Improving outcomes for children, so that every child achieves their full potential, in life involves changes to culture and practice across the children’s workforce;...
Living Alongside a Child's Recovery
Published in Children Now This is the third book in the 'Delivering Recovery' series published with Jessica Kingsley (www.jkp.com) and like it's predecessors it seeks to offer its readers an...
Short term plans for long term gains
Published in Children Now The introductory period for any new placement that a child will be moving into needs to be given thoughtful consideration. We need to think carefully and with some detail...
SACCS reaches 20 year land mark
Published in SACCS News We reached the end of 2006 feeling very excited. Excited because in October we started a new period in our development as an organisation, enhancing practice by the...
Working with separation and endings
Published in SACCS News Separation and endings are a normal occurrence in everyday life. For all of us these can mean very different things. Our first separation as a child is a physical experience,...
Working with Magical Thinking
Published in Children Now When Jasmine was 5 she was accommodated by the local authority, and stayed in a foster home for almost a year. During this time she displayed a series of concerning...
Insights into a child's sense of self
Published in Children Now Children who have experienced trauma in their formative years, brought up within the context of an unpredictable, chaotic and often violent household, take on different...
The way forward...
(a response to the Green Paper) SACCS welcomes the publication of the government’s Green Paper on looked after children (LAC) as a positive way forward; in particular it’s emphasis on improving...
Meeting the real needs of looked after children
At SACCS, we believe delivering the most appropriate service to meet the complex needs of traumatised children is of utmost importance. Looked-after children have dif. culties often viewed as...
Working at SACCS ….
I commenced employment with SACCS in May 2005, having spent 26 years as a civil servant and desperately in need of a new challenge! I still remember those early days vividly. The...
Building a Child's Identify
Looking at the possessions we surround ourselves with, we may find many things; letters, photographs, keys, cd’s, books, video’s and much, much more. These things that we associate with...
Helping Traumatised Children with Difficult News
Communication can be defined as the process of ‘imparting, transmitting or receiving information’ (Aldgate et al, 2006). Communicating with traumatised children presents many challenges, as...
SACCS 2007 International Conference - a moving experience for practitioners
On 13/14 June SACCS held its first International Conference in London for fifteen years. In a coup for the organisation, two of the world's leading authorities on neuroscience and the impact...
Life Story Work – A Time, Space, and Place for Recovery
SACCS came into being in 1987 and since then has worked with hundreds of children offering Therapy, alongside Therapeutic Parenting in Residential Care Homes and Family Placement Fostering. ...
Blair’s Legacy for Social Care
Children who have suffered abuse, through no fault of their own, often do so at the hands of one or more adults in a parental role whose task it was to keep them safe. If they had been physically...
SACCS 2007 International Conference hailed a success
Dr Bessel van der Kolk and Dr Bruce Perry, two of the world’s leading authorities on neuroscience and the impact of childhood trauma, were keynote speakers at an International Conference held at...
Recovery of traumatised children with attachment difficulties
Understanding theories of attachment goes well beyond any residential setting; and lies at the heart of all childcare. Caring for children, whether in hospital, nursery, school, family centre or...
Reflection, understanding and responding with traumatised children
In doing this, we encourage our adults to accept total responsibility for the children in their care. A mother with her child doesn’t ask for permission to do what she thinks is right for her...
'Stepping up' - SACCS Children's Council
One of the most exciting projects that was born last year, and is now being nurtured into its second year is the SACCS Children's Council - 'Stepping Up'. This group which meets every six weeks has a...
