What we offer

Our role is to support our young people and provide them with guidance in accessing and planning for services that are suitable to their needs and desires, such as:

- Providing mental health support and Substance misuse support;
- We can arrange and attend meetings with CAMHS and COMPASS;
- We work in liaise with multi agencies like Y.O.T, College, Sexual health clinics etc;
- Ensuring and supporting young people in education, training and employment;
- Supporting young people to develop life skills;
- Ensuring young people are given opportunities to achieve their full potential;
- Weekly reports on young people's progress and development;
- Support with Provision of appropriate adult at police station, Attendance to court hearings, support with arranging/ attending Lac and Medical reviews;
- Accessing sexual health.

We provide an independent living programme tailored to meet the individual needs and abilities of young people. We also work with young people to support them with building basic life skills and knowledge that they'll need in order to be able to live fully independently such as:

- Applying for housing benefits;
- Budgeting and applying for bank accounts;
- Building and maintaining positive relationships;
- Cooking and general household duties;
- Organisation, routines and boundaries;
- Registering with local health services.


We provide supported housing for:

- 16+ male and female;
- Short term / medium term / long term placements;
- Emergency placements;
- Planned placements;
- Retained placements;
- Out of authority placements;
- Non-accommodated floating support;
- Bail accommodation;
- Shared or sole occupancy accommodation;
- Facilitating electronic tagging system if required;
- Transfer of tenancy post 18 if suitable.

SHS is not a children’s service provider as we work exclusively only with 16+ and we support them to make the right choice, so we don’t:

- Control young people's freedom to come and go as they please without staff permission;
- Restrain young people;
- Constantly supervise young people on their premises;
- Make decisions for young people in terms of their health needs or control young people's medication;
- Control whether or not a young person stays away overnight.