Education
Welcome to MRCS Care Ltd
We aim to provide a long term alternative to fostering for teenage boys who are unable to live with their families. Our small team of experienced carers offer sensitive and responsive care to those placed with us, enabling them to develop...
Welcome to MRCS
We aim to provide a long term alternative to fostering for teenage boys who cannot live with their families. Our small team of experienced carers offer sensitive and responsive care, enabling them to develop inner controls, respect for self and others and to take responsibility for their actions. Our care team aim to meet the development needs of young people and, through the use of individual assessment, support, guidance and opportunities, help them to explore and address their individual needs with a comprehensive care plan.
Our well-regarded experience of looking after young people offers local authorities, social workers and youth offending teams a safe and immediate solution when seeking to accommodate young people whose personal circumstances or behaviour may make them difficult to place. We prioritise the protection and safety of young people placed with us.
Education
With the general UK rates of underachievement amongst looked after children - and male adolescents in particular - at a worrying high, MRCS continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to being part of the solution to getting male teenagers with disrupted education histories and / or special educational needs to value their education
Some young people enter the care system at a very early age; others are taken into care during adolescence. Unhappy and unstable family backgrounds make it hard for a young person to make educational progress at school. Where a young person’s emotional development has been affected by difficult family experiences, poor concentration and under-achievement usually follow
Where a young person is without a school placement on admission to MRCS, his placing authority would be invited to support the preparation to secure appropriate school for the young person. Once accepted and school secure, the pupil will undergo preliminary baseline assessments to gauge his attainment levels and to inform his Individual Education Plan which MRCS will support.
MRCS will seek to secure a school provision that will provide a daily routine and structure much like that of a mainstream school if the young person attends SEN school, yet the provision should be geared to addressing individual needs and learning styles, to ensure all achieve. It should seek to engage individuals on areas of academic difficulty, life skills, and exercise and health promotion.
In all cases students will be encouraged to read books and other educational material, and to carry their learning on after school hours. Homework will also feature as part of the child/young person’s educational programme