Appleby Social Work are available to undertake Independent Social Work within public and private law arena.
We can offer common assessments such as contact supervision and reporting, S.7 reports and parenting capacity assessments, as well as more comprehensive specific issue risk assessments.
In addition to assessments, we can also undertake shorter term pieces of direct work with children and families,
including wishes and feelings
, family network meetings and relationship rebuilding and reunification work.
We are able to provide robust and analytical assessments for both the public and private law arena. This includes S.7 and S.37 reports as well as complex or issue specific risk assessments.
Supervised and Supported Contact can be undertaken on a standalone basis or as part of a specialist Court assessment. We can offer daytime, evening and weekend contact and provide clear and robust reporting which is suitable to be used as evidence within Court proceedings.
We are able to organise and facilitate family group conferences and network meetings either as standalone events or as part of a programme of meetings. This includes preparation, logistics and reporting following on from the event. FGC/FNM can be organised to suit the needs of the family including evenings and weekends and can be face to face and hybrid depending on need.
Our Parenting Capacity Assessments are dynamic, and child centred aiming to provide robust analysis and clear recommendations to manage
the risk faced by the child. We assess based on the here and now
and also the parent's ability to apply parenting advice and
guidance through the child's minority ensuring their needs are met in the immediate future and throughout their childhood.
Our viability assessments are produced to provide the Local Authority with the information that they need to make decisions on kinship placements in emergencies and in the longer term. This includes making decisions regarding progression toward full kinship and connected person assessments, or indeed Special Guardianship Assessments.
Our workers are experienced in building therapeutic relationships with children and their families and use a wide variety of techniques and resources in order to create a therapeutic space in which to work. We work with families who have experienced issues of separation and loss, those who have experienced domestic/ familial abuse as well those who have been exposed to drug and/or alcohol misuse. We can work specifically with the child, or with the family as a whole but ensuring that the child's needs remain the focus of our work.