National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP)

📢 THREE WEEKS TO GO UNTIL The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) 2024. ⭐ What’s On? ⭐ We are really excited about this year’s schedule of learning and amazing speakers: Prince Schulz (Free Your Mind & Be3) - Prince will be sharing his lived experienced of criminal exploitation and gang involvement, shining a light supporting our young people to break the cycle, and empowering young people for a brighter future. Pathfinder Regional Care Co-operatives – we will be joined by the pathfinder RRC’s as we explore a better way to commission supported accommodation services. A key recommendation from the Josh MacAlister MP review. Dr Miriam Silver (BERRI) – Dr Silver will be presenting on the risk profiles of young people in supported accommodation, and how they differ from children within residential. Delivering a thought-provoking assessment of need based on risk and support. Dez Holmes (Research in Practice & National Children's Bureau) – Dez will be bringing her expertise in transitional safeguarding and sharing vital insights on how this impacts care experienced young people in particular. Missing People – a brilliant session with a key focus on supporting care experienced young people who go missing from home, the push and pull factors, and why return home interviews are so important. Catch22: National Leaving Care Benchmarking Form & Young People's Benchmarking Forum – This incredible cohort of young people will be taking to the stage to share what matters most to the young people of today, and how we can better support their needs in 5 key areas. Matthew Brazier (Ofsted) – our colleagues from Ofsted will be sharing key learning from regulations, registrations, and early messages from inspections. A key opportunity to explore challenges and opportunities now inspections have commenced. K&C Expert Assessments-merton compliant age assessors - learn more about age assessments of separated children and how to best support their needs during the process to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation. ⭐ Care Experienced Author Corner ⭐ Our Care Experience Author Corner is a complementary dedicated space for care experienced authors to showcase and sell their book, network with our attendees, and share their stories and what inspired their writing. ⭐ Our Sponsors ⭐ A huge thank you to our headline sponsor Clearcare Solutions, and our event sponsors RWK Goodman, Hazlewoods, Pollensa Insurance Services Ltd and Inicio Group. ⭐ Our Exhibitors ⭐ We are also proud to be facilitating some additional great exhibition stalls this year. bMindful Psychology Vatix Moving On Grahams Consultants Social Care & Education support services Adullam Homes Housing Association Ltd National Children's Bureau Cheery Blossoms Team Factors Ltd tri.x Ofsted PARTNERSHIP TRAINING LIMITED  BERRI Dialogue 🔗 Haven't registered yet? There's still time! https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh

📢 ⭐ The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) - SOLD OUT⭐ 📢 Can you believe it, The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) has sold out of its 450 tickets for next weeks event ⁉️ Months of hard work has gone into the planning of this years conference by the planning committee within the National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP) and the amazing teams supporting things like branding and speakers. It is an event not to be missed, so we are going to add an extra 50 tickets for those that have not yet bought theirs. This will be the only additional capacity we can offer so be quick. https://lnkd.in/e-3djbKr Collaboration over competition, always!

🏆🏆 A proud moment for NASAP and all our partners at the National Children & Young People Awards last week as we won The Supported Accommodation Award and were highly commended in the Partnership Award.   This award is for everyone that has joined the National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP) and supported the association. Over the past year we have come together in unity to create an association that represents all key stakeholders. Championing the rights an entitlements of young people, raising aspirations, and driving up standards of accommodation and the quality of the outcomes achieved with young people.    It was great to have some of our board members there on the night collect this award on behalf of the entire association.    Collaboration over Competition, Always!   #NASAP #Partners #SupportedAccommodation #NationalAssociation #Collaboration #AwardWinning #HighlyCommended #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference #TheNationalChildrenAndYoungPeopleAwards #PartnershipAward #THENSAC #SupportedAccommodation

Happy Monday Partners! ☕️🫱🏻🫲🏽 This week, we are hosting a Bitesize Learning Session on the “need to knows” for providers who are new to regulation. The training will cover the essential requirements for a compliant home, including health and safety policies, risk assessments, training, fire safety measures, health and safety consultation, visitor management, fire emergency procedures, first aid, Legionella, asbestos, and regular maintenance tasks. Delivered by: Murray Kemp CertIOSH Having worked in the care sector for over 15 years in various positions in Adult and Children services. I can provide a health and safety service ensuring compliance from a health and safety law perspective but also understanding the day to day needs of providing a caring environment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to get access to this session & many more like it? Become a member of NASAP: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎟️ Not got your The National Supported Accommodation Conference tickets yet? Get them here: https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨ #NASAP #Partners #SupportedAccommodation #NationalAssociation #Collaboration #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference #RiskAssessment #HealthAndSafety #SafeguardingChildrenAndYoungPeople

Good Morning Partners 🤠 ☕ Coming up this week, we have another insightful Peer to Peer Support Session 🫱🏻🫲🏽 We’ll be exploring sector challenges, exchanging valuable insights, and offering support to one another in every way we can. Some of the topics we will be discussing this week are: 💡 Guest Speaker - Margaret Morgan ; Commissioning & Procurement Officer from Newcastle City Council will be presenting on their latest framework. 💡 Regulation 32 reports – what you need to know – Ofsted: social care  💡 Agency staffing in Children's Home 💡 Upcoming dialogue training 💡 Peer Support Questions 💡 Inspections/Monitoring – Lessons Learnt Hope to see you there! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you involved in Supported Accommodation for young people? Join NASAP today to get involved: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz Collaboration over competition, always! #NASAP #Partners #SupportedAccommodation #NationalAssociation #CollaborationOverCompetition #AgencyStaffing #Regulation32

Are you, or do you know a Care Experienced Author? 📚💫 Next month, we are hosting our second annual Supported Accommodation Conference on Friday 8th November in Birmingham and we are looking for Care Experienced Authors to showcase and sell their book, network with our attendees, and share their stories and what inspired their writing. Our Care Experience Author Corner is a complementary dedicated space for care experienced authors. Please get in touch if you would like to get involved, and showcase your writing or if you have any questions. 🏷️ Tag/share any brilliant writers you know of in the comments. 💡 To enquire, please email: info@nasap.co.uk #CareExperiencedWriters #CareExperiencedAuthors #CareExperienced #CareExperiencedYoungPeople #CareExperiencedYouth #CareExperiencedAdults #NASAP #Partners #SupportedAccommodation #NationalAssociation #Collaboration #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference

📣 CONFERENCE SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 🎤 Session: Who are we supporting: Insight from BERRI data about young people in Supported Accommodation Delivered by: Dr Miriam Silver Dr Miriam Silver will present insights from the data that they have collected from 15,000 uses of BERRI with children in care. This shows how young people in supported accommodation are similar to and different from young people of the same age living in residential care. In particular, there are differences in the domain of risk, which present unique challenges for young people in supported accommodation. There is a lot of discussion about the use of supported accommodation compared to residential care, but as an objective clinician/researcher, Miriam will present the findings from the unique perspective of having unbiased data about young people completed by placements and local authorities in lots of different settings. She can show how children in supported accommodation differ from those in residential care, and discuss how certain types of risk are more prevalent in supported accommodation settings, as well as who is most at risk and what we can do to manage that risk. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎤 About Dr Miriam Silver Dr Miriam Silver is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist known for making psychological knowledge about trauma, attachment and neurodevelopmental conditions more accessible to wider audiences. She managed an NHS CAMHS team for Looked After and Adopted Children for 9 years, is a Senior Research Fellow at UCL/Anna Freud Centre, and has been an expert witness in over 250 sets of care proceedings. She contributed to numerous policy and best practice publications, and wrote the critically acclaimed book “Childhood Trauma and Attachment in Common Sense and Doodles”. After two years as clinical director for a major residential care provider, she now leads BERRI, making scientifically validated online tools to help identify and support children's psychological needs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎟️ Not got your The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) tickets yet? Get them here: https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh 🤝🏼 Don't forget, members of National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP) will receive 20% discount on general admission tickets + 10% discount on exhibitor stall packages (discount codes have been released via email to all registered partners). Become a member: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨ #SupportedAccommodation #TheNSAC2024 #NSAC2024 #CommunitySupport #CollaborationOverCompetition #NASAP #Partners #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference #NationalAssociation #CollaborationOverCompetition #ChildrenInCareInsights #SupportedAccommodationVsResidentialCare

Happy Monday! ☕ Join us this Wednesday for an insightful BiteSize Learning Session: Spiritual and Ritual Abuse – Including accusations of Witchcraft Last year over 2000 children were reported as being abused in England through Spiritual and Ritual Beliefs. Over the past six years, the UK has recorded a 46% increase in the reporting of spiritual and ritual abuse (SARA) in children alone. Jordan, who leads this course, has directed hundreds of successful investigations into such abuse, including the first criminal trial in 2018 where SARA it was acknowledged as an aggravating factor. This input equips you with the necessary tools to identify, report, and refer instances of this abuse, ensuring you are confident in handling such concerns in your role to safeguard those at risk. The course covers various case studies, current statistics on this abuse in the UK, its integration into other more recognised forms of abuse, and specific indicators to be aware of. Jordan will guide you in addressing this abuse, which is intertwined with our beliefs, in a respectful and considerate way, enabling you to protect others from harmful rituals and practices, allowing you to safeguard individuals. We hope to see you there! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trainer Bio Delivered by: Jordan Alexander Jordan has over 20 years’ experience in leading on serious safeguarding investigations at a national and international level, working in the police for 20 years and then a Director of Safeguarding for a national charity, while currently working as the Strategic Safeguarding Lead for the UK’s largest Social Housing Provider. He is also the current chair for the National Working Group against Spiritual and Ritual Abuse, leading over ninety national and statutory agencies, charities and academics in the UK to bring positive change to safeguard people at risk from this abuse. Jordan is a qualified, accredited facilitator and firmly believes in providing training that is interactive, engaging and immersive, ensuring those who attend leave confident in being able to fully manage safeguarding concerns and reports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Become a member of NASAP: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎟️ Not got your The National Supported Accommodation Conference tickets yet? Get them here: https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨ #NASAP #Partners #SupportedAccommodation #NationalAssociation #Collaboration #ChildExploitation #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference #RitualAbuse #SpiritualAbuse #SafeguardingChildrenAndYoungPeople

📣 CONFERENCE SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 🎤 K&C Expert Assessments-merton compliant age assessors Kim N. and Cheryl Brimacombe Kim and Cheryl will be delivering an all day drop-in session at The National Supported Accommodation Conference on: Why does trauma matter? I am only assessing age! The session will cover: The Three Trauma Impact; An interactive workshop that will focus on our professional experiences of supporting separated children and young people to navigate the age assessment process. We will explore the young person’s experiences of the “three traumas’” and the relevance of recognising trauma impact when conducting age assessments, and why this is important when determining age. Writing about T.R.A.U.M.A; A case summary/anonymised age assessment will be used to demonstrate how to write a quality age assessment report, whilst incorporate and analysing the trauma impact on development, physical presentation and demeanour. Live case discussions: Throughout the day we will be available for question and answers and advise in regard to conducting and writing age assessments and what it means to be compliant with case law. We further provide the opportunity for consultation and discussion regarding separated children and young people you are currently working with, and we will support you to devise an effective plan of support. 💡About K&C Expert Assessments 💡 As Merton compliant age assessment specialists, we take a holistic approach to our assessment process, and always consider all the information available to determine the age of a separated child or young person. We are completely independent and form our own professional opinion, remaining unbiased from the views of other sources. Trauma impact is considered throughout. Kim and Cheryl have combined 25 years of social work experience working in front door child protection services in a range of capacities and have been independent social workers for over 2 years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🎟️ Not got your The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) tickets yet? Get them here: https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh 🤝🏼 Don't forget, members of National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP) will receive 20% discount on general admission tickets + 10% discount on exhibitor stall packages (discount codes have been released via email to all registered partners). Become a member: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨ #SupportedAccommodation #TheNSAC2024 #NSAC2024 #CommunitySupport #CollaborationOverCompetition #NASAP #Partners #NationalSupportedAccommodationConference #NationalAssociation #CollaborationOverCompetition #KandCAssessments #AgeAssessment #TraumaImpact

📢 One Month to Go 📢 With one month to go, the countdown has begun for The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) 2024. ⭐ What’s On? ⭐ We are really excited about this year’s schedule of learning and amazing speakers. Prince Schulz (Free Your Mind & Be3) - Prince will be sharing his lived experienced of criminal exploitation and gang involvement, shining a light supporting our young people to break the cycle, and empowering young people for a brighter future. Pathfinder Regional Care Co-operatives – we will be joined by the pathfinder RRC’s as we explore a better way to commission supported accommodation services. A key recommendation from the Josh MacAlister MP review. Dr Miriam Silver (BERRI) – Dr Silver will be presenting on the risk profiles of young people in supported accommodation, and how they differ from children within residential. Delivering a thought-provoking assessment of need based on risk and support. Dez Holmes (Research in Practice & National Children's Bureau) – Dez will be bringing her expertise in transitional safeguarding and sharing vital insights on how this impacts care experienced young people in particular. Missing People – a brilliant session with a key focus on supporting care experienced young people who go missing from home, the push and pull factors, and why return home interviews are so important. Catch22: NLCBF & YPBF – This incredible cohort of young people will be taking to the stage to share what matters most to the young people of today, and how we can better support their needs in 5 key areas. Matthew Brazier (Ofsted) – our colleagues from Ofsted will be sharing key learning from regulations, registrations, and early messages from inspections. A key opportunity to explore challenges and opportunities now inspections have commenced. K&C Expert Assessments-merton compliant age assessors - learn more about age assessments of separated children and how to best support their needs during the process to reduce the risk of re-traumatisation. ⭐ Care Experienced Author Corner ⭐ Our Care Experience Author Corner is a complementary dedicated space for care experienced authors to showcase and sell their book, network with our attendees, and share their stories and what inspired their writing. ⭐ Our Sponsors ⭐ A huge thank you to our headline sponsor Clearcare Solutions, and our event sponsors RWK Goodman, Hazlewoods, Pollensa Insurance Services Ltd and Inicio Group. ⭐ Our Exhibitors ⭐ We are also proud to be facilitating some additional great exhibition stalls this year. bMindful Psychology Vatix Moving-On Grahams Consultants Social Care & Education support services Adullam Homes Housing Association Ltd National Children's Bureau Cheery Blossoms tri.x Ofsted PARTNERSHIP TRAINING LIMITED  BERRI Dialogue 🔗 Haven't registered yet? There's still time! https://lnkd.in/eRNQqQJh