Our Vision
At Hanbury Care our vision is to create positive futures for children within our care.
We achieve this by promoting several dimensions of wellbeing, including; material wellbeing, health and safety, educational wellbeing, family and peer relationships, behaviours and risks, and subjective wellbeing. Ensuring that our practice, policies, and performance indicators are developed to ensure the improvement of children’s lives for the better.
We are passionate about expanding an individual’s emotional and social intelligence, building on their self-worth, and belonging. This mindset is actively encouraged within our staff to ensure promoting a self-fulfilling prophecy within the children with whom we support and care for is at the forefront.
We recognise and are passionate in the understanding that every child’s needs are individual to them, therefore we strive to ensure that our approaches to support are flexible and adaptable to meet their changing needs.
We hold strong beliefs that, in line with the UNCRC, children have a right to a voice, a right and a freedom to express their views, opinions and feelings. We ensure that our children and young people have their voices heard, that although we guide them, they are involved in decisions about their care and support and can be actively listened to with dignity and respect.
We pride ourselves on ensuring that every child maintains family and personal relationships, where appropriate we will endeavour to ensure that every child has continuous, successful, suitable, and long-lasting relationships with those who provide such foundations.
We recognise that the children and young people whom we care for are individuals with their own identities and we strive to ensure that we promote each individual’s identity and provide them with every opportunity to be proud and thrive in their beliefs.
Our Management Team strives to ensure that effective leadership is at the heart of our practice, we work from the principles of ‘Hearts and Heads’.
The ‘Hearts’ principles consider the emotional needs of children and include:
· A child-centred culture which is opposed to criminalisation
· Good parenting and the question “would this be good enough for my child?”
· A homely environment
· Listening to children and treating them with dignity and respect
The ‘Heads’ principles deal with the business side of running the home and include:
· Robust matching and managing of moves to provide stable placements
· Valuing, training and supporting staff
· Protocols to prevent unnecessary use of the police.