Sanctuary Family Centre provides student placement training and social work learning opportunities in a complex environment which is focused on high profile and child protection work, significant interagency liaison, working in multi-disciplinary teams, offering to develop knowledge and skills in relation to working with children and adults with specific needs as well as developing expertise around issues of parenting.
Sanctuary Family Centre’s ethos is to work towards keeping families together as this is in the child’s interests. We aim to be child focused at all times and to support families to effect change and to work with respect and to treat them with dignity at all times.
The staff and client group are extremely diverse and service users may have English as a second language and have complex immigration issues; assessments often have aspects of cultural sensitivity, Students must have a strong commitment to AOP.
Our respected student support program is quality assured by Themby, Managing Director of Sanctuary Family Centre. Themby is and experienced Practice Manager, responsible for the training and support of students and Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSW) including conducting quality assurance activities to ensure child safeguarding standards are maintained. She is also involved in the management and coordination of activities related to social work education within the organisation in collaboration with universities.
Sanctuary Family Centre is pleased to be able to offer practice placement directly to university students. For more details, please complete the form on our Contact webpage or give us a call.