BARNARDO’S CLUARAN
SERVICE
Referral Criteria
• Young people at risk of being looked after
away from home.
• Young people already looked after away
from home but at risk of being placed in a
residential school setting/secure
accommodation out with the Falkirk area.
• Young people returning to Falkirk from a
residential setting who require a holistic
package of support.
Aims of the Service
• To support young people and families
in order that, wherever safe and
appropriate, young people remain in
their own families, schools and
communities.
Residential
Child care
Management
Social
Work
Cluaran
Core
Skills
Teaching
Community
Education
Services Provided
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Individual work
Group work
Family work
Education supports
Volunteer befriending service
Crisis supports
Easter and summer activity
programmes
Education Supports
• Support within classroom.
• Support within Pupil Support Base.
• Issue-based group work within schools
e.g. self-esteem, bullying.
• Individual education supports based
within Cluaran.
• Attendance within Cluaran Education
Group.
• Cluaran/Forth Valley College group.
Are there routes back to
mainstream?
YES!
1. Not for everyone.
2. To be successful this has to be a
two-way process – pressures
upon young people to conform.
Elements of a successful return
to mainstream placement
• Consider the changes that are
required on both sides, identify
possible barriers to success.
FLEXIBILITY WITH CLEAR MESSAGE
FROM SCHOOL WE WANT YOU HERE.
• Effective Team Around the Child.
GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH
REGULAR MEETINGS TO REVIEW
PROGRESS.
• Holistic Approach
WORK WITH FAMILY TO ADDRESS
ANY BARRIERS AT HOME /
RELATIONSHIP ISSUES.
• Listen to young person
CONSIDER PACE OF RETURN –
WHERE POSSIBLE BUILD UPON THE
STRENGTHS OF THE YOUNG
PERSON AND THINK ABOUT THE
WIDER CONCEPT OF EDUCATION.
Case Study 1 – Background.
• 14 year old male.
• Family situation– Dad received brain
injury, family bereavement and
sibling in care.
• Excluded due to two serious physical
incidents.
• Phased reintegration attempted after
first incident was unsuccessful.
Case Study 1 – Barriers.
• Resistance from school on the
grounds of safety.
• Different perspectives on where the
plan was going and which supports
were needed.
• Pace of plan moving too slowly.
Case Study 1 – Outcome.
• Fresh start in new school.
• Appropriate curricular programme
including flexible vocational course.
• Support transferred where
appropriate.
• Young person motivated to make the
right choices.
Case Study 2 – Background.
• 12 year old female.
• Experienced significant trauma.
• Out of education for significant
periods of primary school and most
of S1.
• Resides with grandparents.
Case Study 2 – Barriers.
• School reluctant to take ownership.
• Lack of self-esteem – all or nothing.
• Pace of plan needed to be more
flexible.
• Presents as more mature than
chronological age.
Case Study 2 – Outcome.
• Currently managing the majority of
the plan.
• Transition points require significant
support and careful planning.
• Relationships at home/with
Professionals are stable and
supportive.
• Team Around the Child have a shared
view now.
Case Study 3 – Background.
• 14 year old female.
• Previously a Young Carer for her
father but now living with her
mother.
• No family history of Services being
involved.
• Hospitalisation due to isolated
substance misuse incident led to
Social Work being alerted.
Case Study 3 – Barriers.
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She is the ‘invisible child’.
Poor relationships with no support.
Lack of self-esteem and belief.
No peer relationships/isolated in the
community.
Case Study 3 – Outcome.
• Self-aware of risk factors and how to
manage them.
• Early stages of peer network
formation and relationship building.
• Solution focused approach to
acknowledge progress.