Assessments

Sansar Parenting is a service that specialises in undertaking culturally appropriate assessments. We are experienced in providing social work services for Black and Ethnic Minority families and communities. We offer a range of services for families from diverse communities and can provide workers to match the first language needs of families.

Our aims are to work closely with local authorities, organisations and families to ensure that wherever possible, children remain at home with their families, and should accommodation be necessary for them, that we provide a range of placements to cater for their needs. Intensive work is also undertaken to rehabilitate children back to their families, when and if, it is safe to do so.

Sansar Parenting team includes professionals who are qualified, experienced, motivated and above all, child focused. We are committed to ensuring that disadvantaged children have access to life chances and the best service possible and access to equal opportunities. Our staff including the family support workers are vigorously checked, trained and supported. They will work alongside parents, carers and birth families to ensure the best outcomes for children.

We believe that children are likely to have better outcomes in life if their needs are being met and they are able to explore cultural experiences in a positive way.

We also believe that wherever possible and safe, children and their families should have appropriate support to form positive contact with each other. We will endeavour to work with not just parents, but extended family members, the wider community and other people who are significant to the child.

Our aims are:

To provide a range of assessments and support packages for families, where it is likely that the child/ren may require accommodating or may be at risk.
To provide a range of services, including assessments and support, to families
To offer support alternative arrangements for care when children are unable to remain in the family home
To ensure the cultural, linguistic, religious and background needs of children/young people are met alongside other needs of the child/young person when matching placements
To promote a child-centred approach where the child/young person’s safety and welfare come first
To ensure that children/young people’s views are considered and sought when making decisions about them irrespective of gender, sexual orientation, disability and any other factors
To assist all parents and carers whilst working with birth families, but at the same time remaining child focused
To provide a high level of support to all our staff and an acknowledgement of their hard work, skills and knowledge.
To ensure stability for each child/young person during our involvement and considering suitability for the child/young person for the future plans
To provide 24 hour support for parents/carers and children/young people during our involvement
To provide all our staff with regular supervision, monitoring and support in order that together, the child/young person’s and the family’s opportunities are maximised
A commitment to working in partnership with all those involved in the planning and providing for each child’s care. This includes the local authority, families, child/young person, foster carers, health professionals, education authorities and other relevant professionals/individuals or organisations
A commitment to support on-going plans for Looked After Children, by supporting transitional stages back into birth families’ homes, where appropriate, or into independence