Regulation 44 & 25 Visits
Independent Regulation 44 & 25 visits for children’s homes and for family assessment centres — improve compliance, safeguard children, and support continuous improvement with expert guidance and reports.
Quality Assurance Visits
Quality assurance visits for children’s homes, family assessment centres and supported accommodation — helping drive improvement, promote best practice, and enhance outcomes for young people.
Supervisory Services
Professional and independent supervisory services for leader within children’s care and support services — strengthening reflective practice, promoting resilience, and improving staff wellbeing.
Benchmark Training
Benchmark training for leaders and staff teams who care for and support children — develop skills and experience, better meet the needs of children and young people and benefit from bespoke child centred training.
NCHN
The Northern Children’s Homes Network unites public, independent and third-sector providers in regular meetings and seasonal conferences, sharing resources, inspection trends and training.
Consultancy
Specialist consultancy for children’s homes and supported accommodation — advice on compliance, Ofsted readiness, new service setup and strategic growth.
Mission
Anchored in trauma-informed practice and children’s rights, Skylark is devoted to raising outcomes for children and young people—the way a skylark turns struggle into altitude and voice.
Training
Benchmark and Bespoke
Our training offer includes the benchmark* programme, which is designed to help you develop a new service, preparing your team for inspection. We also provide independent safeguarding supervision, mentoring and coaching, and a suite of bespoke training courses to help you meet specific needs. Our training is face-to-face, because we feel this makes the most difference.
NCHN
Northern Children's Homes Network
The Northern Children’s Homes Network brings together public, independent and third sector organisations who provide homes for children, in collaboration and learning, in regular conference and network meetings. We provide resources, learning, inspection trends and training at the seasonal conferences.
"I have worked with Steve within residential services for over 10 years as he has been the independent visitor for various local authorities I have worked for. I've always admired his individualised, child centred and creative approach to improving the lived experiences and future opportunities for young people. Steve has provided insightful and in depth audits, revised and embedded positive practice, policy and procedures and been hugely supportive and proactive in providing creative evidence to Ofsted during live inspections! Steve has signposted and connected me with wider services and professionals I had not known of but were prevalent in meeting the needs of young people, which has shaped their care teams. He has provided regular, and when needed, impromptu supervision, which has been hugely supportive and guided my practice as a Registered Manager. I cannot recommend Steve highly enough, his knowledge, skills and experience, guidance and support are exceptional. My young people still ask after him - that says it all!"
Lauren, Registered Manager
