ELC PATHWAY RESOURCE CENTRE

Organisation Aims and Activities

1. Type of organisation

Statutory - section of ELC Department of Education and Children's Services

2. Client Group

Children who require residential care

3. Secondary advice?

Yes

4. Aims

To provide young people with positive outcomes to prevent further damaging life experiences; to enable integration back into the community as socially acceptable and reliable young adults and through time and choice responsible parents.

5. Activities

Care are plans created to suit individual young people's needs.

*Providing the best possible standards of care for young people who are experiencing difficulties at home.
*Meeting individual need of each resident and promoting satisfactory emotional intellectual, spiritual and physical development
*Raising the level of each resident's self confidence and restoring and developing self-esteem

6. Information and Advice services

Pathway offers advice on education, benefits, housing, medical issues and dealing with other agencies

Contacts and delivery methods

7. Contact details

Pathway Resource Centre, Meadowmill, Tranent, East Lothian EH33 1DT
Tel 01875 610794                          Fax 01875 610833       

8. Service delivery methods

Telephone Advice: yes
Appointments: yes
Outreach: yes
Home Visits:  yes
Out of Hours:  yes
Via e-mail:  yes

9. Opening Hours

Council office hours except in emergencies

Staffing, Funding and Training

10. Staffing

19 fully qualified - 5 of them part time

11. Funding

ELC

12. Quality Assurance

Care Commission standards

Referrals

13. Formal referral policy - receiving?

From resource team and other agencies yes there is policy

14. Formal referral policy - making?

Stated in aims and objectives documents (see lhs of page)

15. Informal reciprocal referral arrangements?

Work with resource team in emergencies and other agencies

16. Referral procedure

Emergencies and planned admission procedures as outlined in docs

17. Requirements

Contained in documents in lhs box