Welcome to Transitional Plus Care

Transitional Plus Care is a specialist Social Enterprise, Community Interest Company which operates a Shared Lives Scheme, which is registered and regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) . Transitional Plus Care also provides individually tailored and person centred supported living, offending behaviour programmes and community interventions to young people aged 16–18 years old . We have an additional focus on Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic backgrounds and Refugees (BAMER) and young female offenders .

We will work with and for communities in ensuring that the young people within our care are developed and encouraged to play a positive and active role in the life of the communities in which they reside.

It also means that we are not just about financial profit. Profit is re-invested in improving the quality of the services for young people and providing opportunities through mentoring, education, training and other activities which will enrich their lives.

Transitional Plus Care takes a 'problem solving' approach in addressing the needs of the young people in preparing them for independent living.

Looked After Children (Children in Care, Pupil Referral Units, Prison, Secure Units) are some of the most disadvantaged groups of people in society. A large proportion of these young people leave institutions with little or no qualifications, low aspirations, poor health, and little opportunity to gain meaningful and sustainable employment. They frequently become homeless and are then drawn into a negative lifestyle with drugs and crime as the key components. This could eventually result in custody within the adult prison system.

In response to these issues Transitional Plus Care has developed a range of high quality supported living services. For example, offending behaviour programmes and community interventions, that provide a diverse range of options for young people leaving care or other institutional settings. Our delivery is challenging, consistent and an outcome focused approach to services for young people at risk of entering, or already within, the Criminal Justice System or who are leaving care.

Comparisons of the educational background of young people supervised by the Youth Justice System with the general population show that, on average, young offenders have had difficult and often poor previous experiences of education, low attainment, persistent truancy, exclusion and Special Educational Needs (SEN) are some of the most prevalent risk factors associated with offending behaviour.

Supported Living Services Transitional Plus Care supported living is a combination of housing and support services agreed through a tri-party relationship involving the service user, Transitional Plus Care supported living, Social Services Department or Youth Offending Services.

Offending Behaviour Programmes Transitional Plus Care is a niche provider of dynamic, personalised, outcome focussed, offending behaviour programmes which are specifically designed to give maximum benefit to those who are on the margins of the criminal justice system or those already within it.