Children Support Services

Semi-Independent accommodation

RCSS provides semi-independent accommodation and support services for young people between 16-18-year-olds including those with additional needs. Our support and guidance do not end when our young people transition into adulthood. We monitor the progress of our young people through to adulthood and will always be a shoulder to lean on. We continue to provide support and counselling to those that have been provided with a service if required.

We provide high-quality semi-independent accommodation which is perfect for individuals who need support before they are ready to embark on their journey of independence. We seek to produce indispensable services tailored to meet individual care and support needs that will help in transitioning towards their independence.

We believe that our young people should be supported to achieve their goals specifically in relation to education and employment if they are to live sustainable lives. We support our young people around their educational needs and have links with local schools and colleges.

Accommodation for children and young people

RCSS provides residential home within Colchester area of Essex with therapeutic interventions for children and young people aged between 10-17 years’ old who require medium to long term therapeutic support. These include children and young people that have experienced emotional and behavioural difficulties, neglect, abuse, and placement breakdowns.

We recognise that every child’s journey and lived experience is unique to them and their care should be personalised to reflect this. Our model creates a, safe and nurturing home where children are supported to make sense of their adverse circumstances allowing them to feel safe, trusting of healthy relationships, play, grow, achieve and feel cared for.

While children and young people are in our care, we provide individualised care packages tailored to suit the needs of the child or young person and applying our therapeutic model to address any trauma and behavioural related issues. Our therapeutic interventions include therapy, counselling, art and play therapy, key working sessions, garden therapy as well as access to nature therapy which involves spending time in nature.

Providing bespoke weekend and weekday supervised family contact services

RCSS provide supervised family contacts during weekdays and at weekends, welfare visits to families and children who are open to Local Authorities, including direct work with children and families.

In RCSS, we take pride in maintaining our weekend contact services. This is because our belief is that children and families should be given the opportunity to have contact outside school and workdays when the child/ren is not taken out of their valuable school time. Weekend contacts have been evidenced to be natural and more interactive between the parent and child.

Training for alleged perpetrators of domestic violence

RCSS provides training programmes and direct work for alleged perpetrators of domestic violence, resolving disputes/conflicts etc. applying different models and liaising with other professionals for collaborative working.

We provide family support workers to work with children within their home environment and in the community who have experienced domestic violence adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to support the family.