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Services and Interventions

Inspire South West offer a range of services and interventions for children, young people and families. We offer affordable, value-for-money approaches that are flexible, bespoke and person-centred, including:

Talk to us if:

  • You are a statutory agency or a school and want to discuss a bespoke package

  • You are a family and want to commission independent support​

  • ​​You are a community organisation and want a partner in community action​

  • ​You want to commission our training​

  • ​You want to commission professional consultation​

Family Support

Practical support for relationships, routines and lasting change

 

Family life can become stuck when stress, conflict, unmet need and repeated professional
involvement overwhelm everyone's ability to think clearly. Our family work is respectful,
practical and focused on change that can be sustained beyond our involvement.
We begin by understanding the family's strengths, relationships, pressures and priorities. We avoid blame and help family members identify patterns, improve communication, develop workable strategies and make better use of the support around them.
 

Commissioned family work may include
 

Whole-family assessment and outcome planning
 Solution-focused work with parents, carers and young people
 Support with routines, boundaries, communication and conflict
 Relationship and co-parenting interventions
 Professional consultation and contribution to multi-agency planning
 Clear progress summaries and recommendations for the commissioner

 

Referral and suitability

 

Availability and eligibility depend on the commissioned project. Where the work is funded by
a statutory service, a referral must be made through that service. Some community
programmes may accept direct expressions of interest when places are open; the relevant
programme page will state this clearly.

 

Our boundaries

 

ISW family support is not a crisis service, statutory social-work assessment, clinical
treatment or legal representation. Where there is immediate danger, call 999. Safeguarding
concerns will be handled in line with our policy and shared with the appropriate agencies
when required.

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Alternative Provision

The foundation of our approach is to build self-esteem and self-confidence. Young people and families often define themselves in negative terms – and often this is how others describe them too. We start by finding the potential, what might be possible and what motivates and drives the change process. Helping young people identify what they want to achieve long term prompts a shift in mindset because they understand change and growth is relevant to their hopes and dreams.

We support children and young people to identify actions that build self-belief, where achievement (even small steps) drives a positive mindset. We help young people and those that live and work with them to believe that they can be ambitious and achieve success. We guide them on their journey, developing new skills and qualifications and reinforcing their change. We resolutely focus on the positives and embedding new patterns of behaviour.

We help everyone, parents and professionals, to gain insight into the young person’s context and reality; we then help all involved to chart a course where success drives change. By motivating and inspiring young people to make that change, they can experience reward and recognition that encourages them to overcome negatives cycles of behaviour.

We deliver bespoke Alternative Education Programmes, which are funded by schools and the Local Authority to ensure students are accessing specialist support and education. As part of the Alternative Education programs we expose students to enriching opportunities in order to boost their confidence, self-esteem and resilience. As a direct result of our input we have seen many students transition back in to main stream education with clear aspirations for their futures.

  • Attendance at TAF meetings

Our Alternative Education Packages include:

  • A bespoke intervention session (on or off school site as appropriate) working towards desired outcomes

  • Structured ISW interventions utilising a ladder approach

  • Meetings with students, families and schools to explore, identify and review the steps needed to achieve the desired outcomes

  • A report for each session

  • A meal for those who qualify for pupil premium

  • Attendance reporting

  • Flexibility and fairness regarding difficult to engage students

  • Support with transitions

  • All of our 'above and beyond work' and support given to the families of our students

  • Feedback to OFSTED if requested

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