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Consultancy

We are dedicated to getting things right for you and your young people. Our team draw on decades of experience and expertise across children’s residential care to help you make the right decisions as senior leaders. vulnerable, in care, and at risk.

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Our leadership team are at the centre of sector development nationally as well as locally.

  • We are on the Department for Education Expert Working Group for Care Standards
  • We have joined the board of the National Association of Supported Accommodation Partners, supporting their bitesize training and peer to peer support session
  • We run the national Independent Person Network for regulation 44 visitors and Standard 20 visits to residential schools

dialogue has a national reputation for high levels of expertise and an unwavering focus on children and young people.

Opening a home

We can help you appraise property, interview senior staff, develop your procedures and prepare for regulatory visits and interviews. This is your vision for your home, so our support is bespoke, capacity building and always focused on the experience and progress of young people.

Supervision, coaching and appraisal

A supportive culture needs leaders who feel properly supported. We match our consultants to your leaders; to create confidential and developmental services to build confidence and skills, share thinking on decisions and create strong, effective, measurable plans for progress.

Regular visiting

Our most cost effective approaches are little and often. We provide a regulation 44 service, a similar visiting service for Supported Accommodation as well as Quality Assurance contracts for local authorities.

Independent investigations

dialogue have significant experience in exploring allegations about staff and other safeguarding investigations. We then provide a reliable, impartial and confidential report (within the boundaries of child protection procedures) to your senior leaders and keep to prompt, focused timescales to reach the right resolution.

Compliance

We work with children’s homes and supported accommodation settings who have received a compliance notice or inadequate inspection judgement, to create immediate plans to keep young people safe and support you to recovery. With decades of experience and drawing on the skills of former Ofsted inspectors, and links where necessary to legal advice, our team will help you reflect on the regulator’s findings, determine a plan, put it into practice and provide clear evidence of the progress you make.

Your support and guidance have been invaluable to me in my role as RI and to the organisation , your knowledge , experience, and skills are really exceptional and you immediately understood where we needed your guidance. Ofsted commented that it was very positive that we collaborated with an external body to identify areas of development. You have been able to share a clear framework for us to work from moving forward which is brilliant.

Operations Director and RI, Artemis Support

dialogue are now in their second season of delivering independent safeguarding reviews of EFL in the Community football club charities and have completed around 30 visits to date. From the outset, we had a clear vision for what we wanted these reviews to achieve and how we wanted them to feel for the charities involved. dialogue have not simply delivered against this vision; their expertise has actively developed and strengthened the process in ways we would not have reached on our own. Through their insight and experience, they have shaped a review framework that is more robust, more meaningful, and ultimately far more impactful for the organisations taking part. 

We have been consistently impressed by the review team’s ability to engage trustees, senior leaders, designated safeguarding leads, and staff and volunteers as a whole, and to bring people with them through the process.

Tara Lawson, Safeguarding and Incident Manager, EFL in the Community

Highly informative and will be transferred into learning, a few emails were sent at lunchtime off the back of this training!

A fantastic opportunity for self-reflection and really inspired a couple of pages of notes of things I am excited to do. Having this info is very valuable.

We are most effective when involved at an early stage – please don’t hesitate to get in touch for a free informal discussion of your position 

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