- Aim to offer young people the best possible standard of care
- Beyond National Care Standards
- Care and Commitment
CAIRN MHOR was established in 2002 and now provides high quality residential care for up to eleven children and young people between the ages of 6 and 18 in four houses located in the Central Fife area.
Our aim is to support and enable children/ young people to reach their full potential by working in partnership with families, carers, social work department, education and health professionals. We have built up a network of professional associates and associations to help us enhance the service we can offer to the children/ young people for whom we care.
We believe that ‘small is beautiful’ and that by having ‘family sized’ groups we can create an atmosphere of warmth and acceptance and we can more easily build up each child’s/ young person’s individuality, self-esteem and resilience.
We have an enviable record of achievement in supporting our children/ young people in education and in 2007 they achieved a 95% record of attendance.
One of the strengths of our organisation is the ability to ‘hold on’ to children/ young people, helping them feel safe and secure to grow and develop. Consequently, we receive referrals from social workers almost on a daily basis in the hope that we may have a bed available.
We have a well-earned reputation for enabling children/ young people to make a successful transition back home or to an alternative family setting or should that not be appropriate, providing longer term security.
Our care and control policies do not involve physical restraint and are carefully designed to ensure we do not inflict physical or emotional harm on the child/ young people in our care. Our staff receive in-depth training on managing challenging behaviour and effective de-escalation techniques enabling them to focus on individual responses to conflict and aggression and consider strategies for self management in a potentially violent encounter.