Slough Children’s Services Trust is delighted to announce that one of its services, the Slough Youth Offending Team, has been awarded Quality Mark status for its work in supporting young people with special needs who end up in the youth justice system. More than fifty Locality Teams have been working on the two-year project, sponsored […]

Nicola Clemo, the chief executive of Slough Children’s Services Trust, has announced that she is to retire at the end of April. Ms Clemo, 62, has been with the Trust since July 2015, ahead of its official launch in October 2015. In 2016, she was awarded an OBE for her contribution to children’s services. ‘This […]

Ofsted inspectors found that social work practice is improving, partnership working is good and that assessments, plans and reviews are evident ‘in the vast majority of children’s cases’. Where assessments aren’t in place, interim services are being offered and needs met. The fifth Ofsted monitoring visit, took place between 10-11 January 2018 and cases examined […]

Dreams were being fulfilled at Slough Children’s Services Trust’s awards ceremony for children looked after and care leavers as one of the stars of the West End theatre production of Dreamgirls – Adam J Bernard – came along to help present the awards last night (Thursday, November 23). Actor Adam, who hails from Slough, also […]

Slough Children’s Services Trust has not only pledged to step up the pace of change following Ofsted’s latest monitoring visit but has, today, revealed evidence of vast improvements since then. While inspectors found that significant progress has already been made – from a very low base – the monitoring visit found that core elements of […]

World Mental Health Day is celebrated annually today (10 October). To celebrate, East Berkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Local Authorities in Bracknell & Ascot, Slough and Windsor and Maidenhead together with Berkshire Health Care Foundation NHS Trust are launching a survey to understand if health and community services for young people being offered are easy for […]

There was a Caribbean vibe in the air at Slough Children’s Services Trust’s annual Foster Carer Dinner, Dance and Awards Ceremony, held at the Heathrow Windsor Marriott Hotel on Saturday, 30 September 2017, to celebrate the incredible work of foster carers in Slough. Foster carers from across the borough were joined for an evening of […]

Slough Children’s Services Trust was praised for identifying areas of weakness and taking steps to ‘build on the foundation of good practice’ in the latest Ofsted report. However, inspectors found that children need the pace of change to be improved to increase their life chances. The third Ofsted monitoring visit, concentrating on child protection and […]

Slough Children’s Services Trust is delighted to announce the appointment of Robert Tapsfield as its new Board Chair. Robert worked as a social worker for more than 20 years, first as a practitioner and then as a manager, for a range of children’s services in two local authorities in London. In 1999 he moved to […]

A new campaign has been launched in Slough urging people “Hands up if you want to be a foster carer!” The initiative has been launched by Slough Children’s Services Trust (SCST) to coincide with Foster Care Fortnight (8 – 21 May), the national fostering recruitment awareness campaign. It begins a series of activities in the […]