Who Are Norwood

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Who Are Norwood?

• 5 service divisions
• Ravenswood Village
• Learning Disability Services
• Children and Families
• Special Education
• Fostering and Adoption
• plus international ventures

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Context

• 50,000 homeless young people
• 1 in 8 has recently slept on the streets
• Many suffer in silence

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Oakfield Link

• Short term residential facility
• Self referral or other agency
• Practical, educational, emotional support
• External support
• Close to community services local friendships
  develop
• Support tenant

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Profiles

• Anti social behaviour
• School exclusion
• Violence
• Abandonment

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The Binoh Trust

• Part of Norwoods Special Education division
• Working predominantly with Jewish children and
  their families
• Multi disciplinary
• Wider social care support

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What Does Binoh Do?

• Works with children 2-18
• Special educational needs (SEN)
• Supports children in school or back into school
• Whole child perspective
• Professional support to school staff and others

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Success?

• Stories of
• Return to school following exclusion
• Improved communication and social skills
  amongst others
• through joined up services working with the
  whole child

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Social Work

• Working across and independently of other Norwood
  services
• Individual and family support
• Crisis prevention