Recovery Programme
Recovery Programme
Introduction
Founded in 1987, SACCS Care has developed into a leading provider of recovery for traumatised children. We offer a comprehensive and integrated recovery service that is ready to respond to a child's needs both regionally and nationally. Our service is a theoretically underpinned working methodology provided by highly trained staff. Our model delivers a measurable difference in supporting children through their traumas.
Children for whom SACCS Care provides recovery
Children are referred to SACCS by Local Authority Children's Service Departments from all over the UK. On referral, children are aged 4 - 12 years. On admission they will be placed in homes in the West and East Midland Regions with children of similar ages (no more that 5 years from youngest to eldest), with each home having occupancy of up to 5 children in total. A comprehensive impact assessment is carried out to ensure that each child's needs is met and matched to the needs of those already placed.
We specialise in providing recovery for children who have suffered early life trauma as the victims of serious abuse and/or profound neglect. These children having suffered intolerable abuse and negative experiences have very complex needs. As a result, the children have serious emotional difficulties that include developmental and attachment problems. They will have little if any understanding of acceptable behaviour in groups. Their behaviours; a defense against their early life experiences; are set as an unhealthy inner world as early as 3 years old*. Many if not most of these children will have experienced repeated family and placement breakdown. Their numbers, based on our own research are no more than 1 in every 200 of the looked after children population. Unaided, they may carry their trauma into adulthood, and potentially, repeat those acts of abuse upon their own and other children.
Our specialism is to support these children through an in-depth and integrated approach to recover from their unhealthy state and transfer, over time, in a controlled and safe environment, to achieve excellent outcomes that include a healthy inner model.
Pughe. B and Elliott.S 2008
*Allen, G and Smith, ID (2008) Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens, Chapter 2 pp. 45-52. Centre for Social Justice and the Smith Institute.