About Us
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Spencer & Arlington
Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach all our services are carefully designed and bespoke, creating individual progression, the power of the individual continually shapes our approach in achieving amazing outcomes.
S&A have been established since 1998, with an exceptional track record offering a range of specialist supported housing services for young people and adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs across the UK.
S&A’s communication models is vital in ensuring that people can express themselves and make sense of the world around them. This is equally if not more important when that person has a learning disability and may not be able to interpret their environment as easily as others.
We work to individual strengths to bolster self-confidence and nurture the best in all of our service users.”
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Community Inclusion
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The Care Act 2014 gave new statutory duties to local authorities to support people to maintain their wellbeing and independence. The Act enshrines the principle of individual wellbeing, placing this at the heart of the care and support system. It promotes independence and cites the importance of partnership working, with a drive towards greater integration between different services to improve people’s outcomes.
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S&A is about enabling people to have the best possible lives. We support our service users to be as independent as possible, have more choice and control over their support and to be central to any decision-making.
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We are committed to support people to live healthy and independent lives for longer and focus on what is most important to the person whom we support, to recognise their strengths and their networks and to help our service users to stay connected and active in their communities.
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doing things that have a purpose and are meaningful for our service users
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doing things that are uniquely right for them, with support that meets their individual needs
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meeting local people, developing friendships and connections, and building a sense of belonging.
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Being involved with the local community leads to friendships and natural ways of getting support. It can make people less reliant on services.
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It gives a sense of belonging and leads to people contributing to their community.
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The community is there for all - everyone has the right to use the facilities and opportunities on offer. It’s part of being a citizen.
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S&A Supports people who need a great deal of support to do things (because they have complex impairments or challenging behaviour) have the right to the same opportunities as everyone else.
Our Approach - PBS - Positive Behaviour Support
Our ‘strengths-based’ model enables our service users to build on service user strengths and focus on the things that work to overcome the barriers preventing them reaching their potential. We focus on a whole-life approach, opposed to a problem behaviour.
The overall aim of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is to improve the quality of a person’s life and that of the people around them. This includes children, young people adults as well as older people.” PBS is a values-based approach based on human rights and inclusion, working in partnership with the person and their family to eliminate unnecessary restrictions. We use a range of methods to find out what a person’s behaviour means to use support to help people to meet realise their potential. “PBS aims to provide the right support for a person, their family and friends to help people lead a meaningful life and learn new skills without unnecessary restrictions. It is not simply about stopping a problematic behaviour”.
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Our Positive Behaviour Support practitioners (PBS) utilizes assessments that look beyond the Behaviour itself and more towards the social, emotional, cognitive and/or environmental factors influencing his behaviour. A functional assessment will offer a better understanding the function or purpose behind the behaviour. It contributes to a behaviour support plan by providing an understanding of why the service user may engage in a behaviour and identifying what support is
required to address the unmet needs.
Our Behaviour support plan often includes the following areas of focus, primary prevention, responding to early signs of behaviour, reactive strategies, reduction in restrictive approaches, skill building, staff development, environmental re- design & Systems change.
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