National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners (NASAP)

Thoughts with all our members and colleagues supporting children and young people. You are amazing! ⭐️

Welcome to the first in-person regional NASAP event being held in the north west. Regional north west members can send one rep from your organisation. National members can send two reps to any of the regional in-person events in any region. If you are not yet a NASAP member we extend the invite to the first in-person events for one rep from your organisation or local authority. We look forward to seeing you!

Do you have access to venues with capacity for 50-60 people on these dates, in these areas? 📍🗺️ • North Yorkshire – 30th Jan • West Midlands – 6th Feb • Leicester / South Lincolnshire – 13th Feb • Somerset – 20th Feb • Berkshire / Surrey – 27th Feb Get in touch if you do: info@nasap.org.uk Please share this post to help us reach venues. #NorthYorkshireVenues #WestMidlandsVenues #LeicesterVenues #LincolnshireVenues #SomersetVenues #BerkshireVenues #SurreyVenues

📣 NASAP will be touring the country holding collaborative face to face events in the New Year. Leaders in supported accommodation, commissioning, youth organisations and community partners all welcome. Please recommend in your regions so we can truly connect and improve outcomes for young people. More info to follow. Join us! Please repost 🙏🏼 https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz

Happy Monday Partners! ☕️🫱🏻🫲🏽 This week, we are hosting a Bitesize Learning Session on: Recording: What, When, How. 💡 About this session: John Woodhouse will be reviewing the basics of recording, looking at why it is necessary, structuring your records, how language can be misinterpreted, and challenging you to review if the information is a fact, opinion or professional judgement. 💡Meet this week's trainer: John Woodhouse John Woodhouse: John has over 30 years of experience with young people and is a former LA senior leader with outstanding leaving care services. John is a DfE Expert Working Group member for Care Standards training, support, and consultancy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to get access to this session & many more like it? Become a member of NASAP: https://ow.ly/7TYm50QxOkz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨

Happy Friday partners & future partners!   🎥 We're excited to share our highlights video from The National Supported Accommodation Conference (NSAC) 2025, held at The Vox, Birmingham.    🎟️ Over 500 tickets sold, 5 main sponsors, 18 awesome exhibitors, and 9 incredible speakers and workshops it was the supported accommodation event of the year!    "A perfect place to learn all the information you need. You can't meet the people you're meeting here in a normal environment" - Attendee    Thank you to Ross Jukes for filming & editing   🎤 Our incredible line up of speakers were: Prince Schulz Lucy Butler & Wendy Williams Dr Miriam Silver (BERRI) Dez Holmes (Research in Practice & National Children's Bureau) Stephanie Fleischer-Brock (MSc) Missing People Catch22 Matthew Brazier (Ofsted) K&C Expert Assessments-Merton Compliant age assessors   💡 Our Conferences are accredited by The CPD Group and all attendees receive a CPD certificate.   ⭐ Our 2024 Headline Sponsor was: Clearcare Solutions   ⭐ Our 2024 event sponsors were: RWK Goodman Hazlewoods Pollensa Insurance Services Ltd Inicio Group   ⭐ Our 2024 Exhibitors were: bMindful Psychology Vatix Moving On Grahams Consultants Social Care & Education support services Adullam Homes Housing Association Ltd National Children's Bureau Cheery Blossoms Team Factors Ltd tri.x Ofsted PARTNERSHIP TRAINING LIMITED BERRI dialogue   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   🎟️ Get your tickets now for our 2025 conference at the early release price:   https://lnkd.in/gcw42skn -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Become a member of NASAP for 20% off General Admission & 10% off Exhibition Stands for our 2025 event:   https://lnkd.in/eZSxjb6K ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://lnkd.in/ggBb7WFA

🥁🌟 Introducing our National Project Lead 🌟🥁 Janelle Brindle 🤵🏼♀️ We are incredibly proud and very excited to announce we have appointed a National Project Lead at NASAP. Janelle will be responsible for coordinating and delivering our NASAP partner + other priorities, including: ⭐️The promotion of excellence in supported accommodation for young people through innovation, collaboration and leadership support. ⭐️The promotion and representation of the interests of providers of supported accommodation for young people across the country. ⭐️ The provision of information, support, guidance, advice, research and training. ⭐️ Developing and growing a forum that is a collective voice of public, private, and third sector providers of supported accommodation services. ⭐️ Promoting the highest standards of child centred practice and professional excellence. About Janelle: Janelle has over 20 years' experience working in the supported accommodation and social care sector, specialising in recruitment, training and operational and strategic management. She has a proven track record of fostering collaborative working environments and driving positive change through innovative solutions in partnership with stakeholders. Janelle is a strong advocate for upholding young people's rights and empowering them to have a voice. Please give a warm welcome to Janelle, we can't wait to see how she helps shape NASAP. Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽✨

🥁 Introducing our brand new Administrative & Marketing Assistant 🌟 Katie Davies Katie will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation of NASAP by providing extensive administrative support. This role is primarily focused on administrative duties, including day-to-day office management and member support, with additional responsibilities in marketing to help promote NASAP’s mission and services. 👩🏼💻 About Katie: Katie is a qualified teacher, with 3 daughters of her own, ages ranging from 9 to 20 years old. She has provided Ofsted regulated child-minding care in a bilingual home setting for 6 years. Katie also has over 10 years admin experience in various private and public sector roles including providing admin support to a council training department and organising large events. Katie also has over 5 years’ experience in self-employed marketing role. She is passionate about bringing out the best in people and delivering good customer service. Please give a warm welcome to Katie, we're so pleased to have her on board! 👏🏼 Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽

⭐NASAP Members new benefit: Ofsted Inspection Support⭐ 🔍 As inspections have got underway we have been talking to members and understand the natural worries you have ahead of inspection. Some members will be offering to share their inspection stories, good and perhaps more challenging, through the peer to peer sessions. We also have another opportunity to hear Steve Percival talk about anticipating and planning effectively for inspection in December. As we have been reinforcing in our peer to peer sessions, if you have a good knowledge of the regulations, a safe, homely home and a strong value based focused on the welfare and safety of your young people you are going to do fine. Ofsted’s role is the same as yours… to make sure young people are safe and progressing well in safe settings with amazing staff. Our new benefit provides you with individual support through inspection. If you contact us on the Monday when you’re notified of an inspection, NASAP will now offer you a named individual who will keep in touch with you through the inspection process. Their role will be: ▫️To be linked up by email, sharing their phone number and offering to answer any last minute questions ahead of inspection ▫️To respond on the day to any queries you have ▫️To provide you with initial emotional support and a listening ear if things are challenging ▫️To support you to in your rights within an Ofsted inspection, including requesting to delay the inspection if required ▫️ To make contact via the NASAP admin email to check in with an offer to offload following an inspection ▫️To offer initial reflections following an inspection, helping you understand the findings ▫️ To facilitate access to additional support if you need to challenge Ofsted’s findings or respond to issues they have found ▫️To advocate on your behalf with Ofsted where we can demonstrate there is unfairness This is initial support included in your membership fee – if you need more detailed support we will help you access this too. We are confident in the values of our membership base and believe we’ve done everything we can alongside you to get you ready for inspection, particularly through the bitesize training and peer to peer support. We will be here to support you with inspection, to understand any findings and if necessary to challenge the regulator either alongside you or on behalf of the whole sector where we believe the regulations are not being properly applied. We are so proud to be part of our members journey, of your young people’s journey, and look forward to hearing how it has gone. 🫱🏻🫲🏽 Members: Get in touch to access this service 🔓Become a member of NASAP to access this service: https://ow.ly/C3bK50U9Pwz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽

⭐NASAP Members new benefit: Ofsted Inspection Support⭐ 🔍 As inspections have got underway we have been talking to members and understand the natural worries you have ahead of inspection. Some members will be offering to share their inspection stories, good and perhaps more challenging, through the peer to peer sessions. We also have another opportunity to hear Steve Percival talk about anticipating and planning effectively for inspection in December. As we have been reinforcing in our peer to peer sessions, if you have a good knowledge of the regulations, a safe, homely home and a strong value based focused on the welfare and safety of your young people you are going to do fine. Ofsted’s role is the same as yours… to make sure young people are safe and progressing well in safe settings with amazing staff. Our new benefit provides you with individual support through inspection. If you contact us on the Monday when you’re notified of an inspection, NASAP will now offer you a named individual who will keep in touch with you through the inspection process. Their role will be: ▫️To be linked up by email, sharing their phone number and offering to answer any last minute questions ahead of inspection ▫️To respond on the day to any queries you have ▫️To provide you with initial emotional support and a listening ear if things are challenging ▫️To support you to in your rights within an Ofsted inspection, including requesting to delay the inspection if required ▫️ To make contact via the NASAP admin email to check in with an offer to offload following an inspection ▫️To offer initial reflections following an inspection, helping you understand the findings ▫️ To facilitate access to additional support if you need to challenge Ofsted’s findings or respond to issues they have found ▫️To advocate on your behalf with Ofsted where we can demonstrate there is unfairness This is initial support included in your membership fee – if you need more detailed support we will help you access this too. We are confident in the values of our membership base and believe we’ve done everything we can alongside you to get you ready for inspection, particularly through the bitesize training and peer to peer support. We will be here to support you with inspection, to understand any findings and if necessary to challenge the regulator either alongside you or on behalf of the whole sector where we believe the regulations are not being properly applied. We are so proud to be part of our members journey, of your young people’s journey, and look forward to hearing how it has gone. 🫱🏻🫲🏽 Members: Get in touch to access this service 🔓Become a member of NASAP to access this service: https://ow.ly/C3bK50U9Pwz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Collaboration over competition, always! 🫱🏻🫲🏽