Polaris Children’s Services has developed an expertise in working with vulnerable children and their families across the UK. We were established as a company in our own right in 2009.

Our first projects were for disabled children and their families, enabling them to feel included and supported. Our short break offer was uniquely underpinned by registration with the Care Quality Commission in England and the Care and Social Services Inspectorate in Wales.

Using the Groups UK wide office infrastructure, we were commissioned by Cafcass to deliver contact services for families going through divorce. The learning from this direct work with parents gave our staff confidence to work with families in need and offer interventions that prevented family breakdown and children entering the care system.

Our multi-disciplinary social workers, support workers, therapists and teachers use both therapeutic and evidence based approaches in their work.

Our commitment to vulnerable children has always been key to the work that we do and our alternate education programmes create the opportunity for young people to achieve.

The experience of operating a range of specialist services, both locally and across the UK, ensured that Polaris Children’s Services had the capability to take on the responsibility of the whole social work service for the British Forces in Germany, undertaking child protection through to working with vulnerable adults.

Now, we are a highly respected provider, delivering innovative outcome led services to increasingly complex and challenging user groups across. Our commissioning partners include Local Authorities, Government Bodies, Charities and the Ministry of Defence and we are beginning to not only secure and develop new services to meet emerging needs, but also managing and improving existing services and employing and embracing staff from previous providers with sensitivity and consideration.

Polaris Children’s Services will continue its commitment to:

• Engaging with young people and offering needs led service
• Strengthening families experiencing difficulties and develop interventions that show measurable positive outcomes
• Offering high quality and best value services to our customers
• Developing our workforce to be the best that they can be

The Company is part of the Polaris Community.

The operational team, led by MD Tracy Livesey, has wide ranging social care and education expertise and cross sector knowledge.

The development, performance and position of Polaris Children’s Services Limited is discussed in Polaris’ monthly board meeting.

The Polaris Community has over 20 years’ experience of managing social care risks which has enabled the development of robust policies, procedures and systems. These are continually reviewed to ensure that they appropriate and also provide mitigation against any new risks identified. The main areas of focus are; safeguarding and child protection, regulatory compliance and inspection results, service provision, data protection, customer service, financial management, and employee related matters.

Polaris Children’s Services Limited operates a robust system for monitoring both operational and corporate risks and adheres to the operational risk management procedures set out by Pollaris.

Our Corporate Governance guidelines are there to make sure that the interests of our organisation and people are protected through principles of integrity, transparency, accountability and strong leadership.

As a learning organisation, we are committed to seeking feedback from all service users and customers.

Companies with more than 250 employees are required by law to publish their gender pay gap figures. Here are our snapshot figures from April 2018 to April 2019.

These figures have also been posted onto the Government website: https://gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Viewing/search-results