Steve McCabe MP to host Hope Instead of Handcuffs online roundtable event

As media and political support continues to grow for serenity welfare’s Hope Instead of Handcuffs campaign, leading supporter Steve McCabe MP will host an online roundtable event on 20th July to discuss how to tackle the use of restraint against children in care and how to support better vulnerable young people.....   View Full Article...

MPS CALL TO END USE OF HANDCUFFS ON CHILDREN IN CARE

Dozens of MPs have joined forces to call on the government to ban the use of handcuffs on children in care. MPs have called for an end to handcuffing children in care. Picture: Adobe Stock Ministers are backing the Hope Instead of Handcuffs campaign, launched by Emily Aklan, chief executive of children’s social care provider serenity welfare, which is calling for legislation allowing a child in care to be handcuffed during secure transportation to be scrapped....   View Full Article...

Best Businesswomen Awards 2021

Best Businesswomen Awards 2021 The Best Businesswomen Awards have announced their winners for 2021 at a Gala Final held at the Hilton Wembley.    Our CEO Emily Aklan has won the Best Businesswomen Gold Award for Children and Families category in this prestigious competition which seeks to find the very best female business talent from across the UK and Internationally.   Despite a global pandemic, the sheer resilience of female entrepreneurs shone through. All winners, selected by a panel of business experts, demonstrated a flair for entrepreneurship, tenacity, and determination.    The Best Businesswomen Awards are designed to recognise the achieve...

Job Alert: Childrens Crisis Intervention Key Worker

Childrens Crisis Intervention Key Worker At serenity welfare we look after children in Crisis when no one else can. This is more that a support worker role, you will need to have a nurturing approach and be passionate, resilient, and committed to promoting the physical, emotional, and intellectual wellbeing of the children we work with. They can have complex needs and trauma related behaviours from being exploited in areas such as Drugs, Gangs, Violence, Sexual and Criminal Exploitation. They may also have Mental Health and Learning disabilities. If you have the skills to mentor and support a child or young person to bring about change in their lives, assisti...

Children in care are being handcuffed on their way to school and foster homes

Children in care are being handcuffed on their way to school and foster homes Children in care can be handcuffed under the law as a last resort. Image: Pixabay MPs are backing a campaign to make private companies accountable for handcuffing children in care while transporting them. MPs want to ban vulnerable children as young as 10 from being handcuffed and “treated like animals” while being taken to and from school and foster homes. Private companies transporting children between care and foster homes, schools and hospitals – often in “caged” vehicles – are legally allowed to handcuff and physically restrain them as a last resort to stop a...

Children's rights campaigner Aklan calls for change of narrative around looked after children

Writing for CareTalk, Emily Aklan, founder of serenity welfare and the children’s rights campaigner behind the Hope Instead of Handcuffs initiative, calls for a change of attitude around vulnerable young people and urges government to help dispel the myth that such youngsters are responsible for their own troubles and invest in the services they require. In my many years of working with vulnerable young people, one thing which never fails to shock me is the negative attitudes targeted towards children in care. The archaic view of looked after children as “little thugs”, responsible for their problems, is more widespread than we might like to admit....