Help children and young people adapt to adulthood

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At Pathway Social Care Consultancy, we help children and young people adapt to adulthood through a range of support services. Contact our team today to find out more about the variety of support we can offer to children, young people, and families.

Supported lodging carers

  • What are supported lodgings?

    A safe place to call home is possibly the most critical thing that young people who are in crisis might need. We are here to help young people to develop resilience. This is much harder to do without the sense of security and support that a place to call home offers. If we can stop a young person from becoming homeless, we will do everything that we can to do that.


    Supported Lodgings is where a young person lives with a family or individual with a spare room who helps the young person to live independently.


    The Supported Lodgings Carer does not have parental responsibility for or charge and control of the young person. However, she or he does have responsibility for supporting the young person's progress — reporting any concerns to the young person’s Social Worker or Personal Advisor and maintaining regular contact with the Supported Lodgings Worker.

  • How do we do it?

    Getting the right Host for a young person is critical. Pathway Social Care Consultancy takes the time needed to get to know the young people it works with, their likes and dislikes, so that they can understand who they are. It’s only by taking this time that we can match each young person’s needs with a Host’s skills, preferred location, and availability.


    To make this happen we do need to go through a few stages to get the right match; and there are always a few forms to fill out. Pathway Social Care Consultancy will always help a young person to complete their paperwork and, once we have received the references that we need, we arrange a meet-and-greet visit in the Host’s home. This gives the young person a chance to meet the family, have a tour of the house, see that could be their new room, and discuss anything important before they move in.

  • What is available for young people?

    But that is not where Pathway Social Care Consultancy’s work ends. Every young person on Supported Lodgings has a Support Worker who is there for them and helps them move forward. The Support Worker is not just someone to talk to if things are not going so well. They help young people develop the skills that they need to live successful independent lives. This can be money management, they can help them re-engage with education or find other learning and training options for them; or they might help them access any health or well-being advice and support that they might be looking for.

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Independent family assessments

Pathway Social Care Consultancy has a team of expert social workers and Family Support Workers who are trained and experienced to carry out independent assessments of children and families. Our expert Independent Social Workers undertake a wide range of assessments including Parenting Assessments/PAMS, Sibling Assessments, Age Assessments, Special Guardianship Order Assessments, Viability Assessments (also as part of an SGO), Connected Persons Assessments and Fostering Assessments.

Contact supervision

Supervised contact is the supervision of a child by a safe adult whilst the child has contact with a non-resident family member.



Supervised contact is used when it has been determined that a child has suffered or is at risk of suffering harm during contact. Referrals will usually be made by the local authority, another child contact centre, a court, CAFCASS officer or by a self-referral. Supervised contact supports the physical safety and emotional wellbeing of a child whilst they have contact with their non-resident parent. We can help to re-establish contact when there has been a significant time lapse of no contact. We can assist parents in building and sustaining positive relationships between themselves and their child. We support contact for children with significant others in their families and promote sibling relationships. We work in a sensitive manner and at the child’s pace.

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Community family support intervention work

Working intensively with the whole family to improve children and young people’s lives and life chances. Our Family Support Intervention/Crisis Service offer support to children and families with specific needs — that is, where children or young people are at risk of poor outcomes due to problems in the level of care and parenting they receive and where they experience difficulties at home or at school. This can happen for a variety of reasons including inappropriate behaviour management; impaired physical or emotional wellbeing; poor attachment; neglect and substance misuse, all of which leave children and young people at risk of poor educational attainment, poor physical and mental health outcomes and at a considerable disadvantage as they enter adulthood where there is a risk they will repeat a cycle that may well impact adversely on their own children.

Find out more about our family support services on: 07854 041324 / 07886644395

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