Phil Cass, managing director, Homes to Inspire
We are part of a charity the Shaw Trust and run 53 residential children's homes, two supported accommodation services and two independent fostering agencies.
We think there are barriers for children's homes providers to work with children with the most complex needs. Those barriers are financial, reputational, regulatory and operational.
We've developed a shared risk approach where we identify key local authority partners and work with them to share the risk across the local authority, the registered provider, registered manager, the health services and other local stakeholders. That partnership enables us to provide local homes for local children, so that we don't have the most complex children scattered around the country, often in unregulated settings, or living with the newest, least-experienced staff teams.
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