Key Principles

All young people whom we care for and work with should be loved, happy, healthy, safe from harm and able to develop, thrive and fulfil their potential.

All our services should value and nurture each young people as an individual with talents, strengths and capabilities that can develop over time.

All our services should foster positive relationships, encouraging strong bonds between children and staff on the basis of jointly undertaken activities, shared daily life, domestic and non-domestic routines and established boundaries of acceptable behaviour.

All our services should be ambitious, nurturing young people’s learning and their ambitions for their future.

All our services should be attentive to Young people's need, supporting emotional, mental and physical health needs, including repairing earlier damage to self-esteem and encouraging friendships.

All our services should be outward facing, working with the wider system of professionals for each young person and with their families and communities of origin to sustain links and understand past problems.

All our services should have high expectations of staff as committed members of a team, as decision makers and as activity leaders. In support of this, We should ensure all staff and managers are engaged in on-going learning about their role and the Young people and families they work with.

All our services should provide a safe and stimulating environment in high-quality buildings, with spaces that support nurture and allow privacy as well as common spaces and spaces to be active.

The values statement section within the National Minimum Standards (NMS) for fostering and the National Minimum Standards for residential centres and explains the important principles that underpin these standards.

See: National Minimum Standards for Adoption / Fostering Services.

See also: Residential Family Centres National Minimum Standards (DfE, GOV.UK) and Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children: National Minimum Standards.

The overarching duty of a provider of residential holiday schemes is to ensure that the scheme is conducted so as to promote and make proper provision for the welfare of the children it accommodates. See Residential Holiday Schemes for Disabled Children Regulations 2013: Regulation 5: Promotion of Welfare.

As a provider of services for young people, Break's mission is to provide services of the highest quality, working together to create stability and improve opportunities for a better future. Break's values are to listen to and respect all individuals; to be inclusive; to do the right thing; to make a difference; to be optimistic and to inspire and create hope.