Foster carers from across Slough were partying long into the night on Saturday as Slough Children’s Services Trust’s hosted its annual Foster Carer Dinner, Dance and Awards Ceremony, held at the Heathrow Windsor Marriott Hotel on Saturday. The awards are to celebrate the incredible work of foster carers and home from home carers across Slough […]
Turning round the lives of vulnerable women in Slough
Pause Slough recently celebrated its first anniversary as part of Slough Children’s Services Trust, a year that has seen the lives turned round of 17 women who were previously at risk of repeat removals of children from their care. For many women working with Pause, it was the first time their needs were prioritised, and […]
Trust appoints new Chief Executive
Slough Children’s Services Trust has appointed Lisa Humphreys as its new Chief Executive. A qualified social worker with more than 20 years’ experience in children’s social care, youth offending and early help services, Lisa will take over from the interim Chief Executive, Andrew Bunyan, in September. Lisa will join the Trust from Wokingham Borough Council […]
Celebrating the children who make up foster families
It was a night of celebration last Thursday as Slough Children’s Services Trust hosted its annual Kids Care 2 event at Slough and Eton School to celebrate the children of foster carers and to thank them for the valuable role they have within the foster family. Children of foster carers play a significant part in […]
Trust is ‘improving outcomes’ for children in care in Slough
The service that children in care receive in Slough is ‘much better’ than it was two years ago and there are ’positive improvements’ at Slough Children’s Services Trust, according to Ofsted inspectors. The inspectors, who visited the trust between May 1-2, praised the constructive relationships between social workers, team managers and independent reviewing officers (who […]
New interim chief executive for Trust
Andrew Bunyan has been appointed as the new interim chief executive at Slough Children’s Services Trust. Andrew, a registered social worker with extensive operational and strategic management experience, officially takes over from retiring chief executive Nicola Clemo on April 30. He has worked as both a director of children’s services and as a local authority […]
SCST’s YOT achieves Quality Mark status
Slough Children’s Services Trust is delighted to announce that one of its services, the Slough Youth Offending Team, has been awarded Quality Mark status for its work in supporting young people with special needs who end up in the youth justice system. More than fifty Locality Teams have been working on the two-year project, sponsored […]
SCST chief executive Nicola Clemo OBE announces her retirement
Nicola Clemo, the chief executive of Slough Children’s Services Trust, has announced that she is to retire at the end of April. Ms Clemo, 62, has been with the Trust since July 2015, ahead of its official launch in October 2015. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to children’s services. ‘This […]
Social work practice ‘improving’ at Slough Children’s Services Trust
Ofsted inspectors found that social work practice is improving, partnership working is good and that assessments, plans and reviews are evident ‘in the vast majority of children’s cases’. Where assessments aren’t in place, interim services are being offered and needs met. The fifth Ofsted monitoring visit, took place between 10-11 January 2018 and cases examined […]
A celebration of children looked after and care leavers in Slough
Dreams were being fulfilled at Slough Children’s Services Trust’s awards ceremony for children looked after and care leavers as one of the stars of the West End theatre production of Dreamgirls – Adam J Bernard – came along to help present the awards last night (Thursday, November 23). Actor Adam, who hails from Slough, also […]
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