About Inspiration Support Services
Inspiration Support Services (ISS) is a service that provides a range of placements to meet the needs of looked After Children and Care Leavers. The service is managed by a team of experienced qualified professionals who provide a ‘child and person centered’ and needs led service to children/young people in the placement.
ISS was set up in response to a perceived need to provide packages of support to meet the diverse needs of children/young people requiring placements.
ISS is a private limited company registered under the Companies Act 1989. The company was founded by an innovative Social Worker who has vast experience working with young people across different settings who has a clear vision about having highly skilled staff to provide quality and safe care to young people. The vision also included having a skilled bank of support workers to minimise placement disruption/terminations.
Our Vision
Changing lives to make a positive difference
- To provide a range of high quality and bespoke services to looked after children who are in care and leaving care,
- Enabling young people to learn, develop and maximise their full potentials towards independent living.
- We plan and deliver our services to safeguard young people and achieve excellence in our outcomes.
- To involve young people in the design and delivery of services that meet their needs.
Our Team
We have a highly experienced and self-motivated staff team who connect warmly with the young people aimed at achieving positive outcomes in their care.
Our support workers act professionally as models to the young people and support the Young People to make safe and healthy choices thereby reducing challenging behaviours as well ensuring that the young people realise their potential whilst in the placement.
All staff are qualified to a minimum standard of Diploma level 3 Working with children and young People. All staff have a detailed CPD plan of training and learning which are updated via training and retraining.
There is also in place a 24-hour on call support system to address emergency situations as safeguarding of young persons is our watch word.