Social services
Care homes
Priory care homes are committed to establishing and nurturing long term partnerships with our local authority colleagues to ensure smooth arrangements around funding, to facilitate effective care coordination, and to maximise sharing of best practice and mutual learning as our services develop to meet public sector needs.
Our key objective is to provide a high standard of care to our service users, promoting and supporting individual dignity, self respect and independence. To achieve this goal we place particular importance on high quality advocacy, on the learning and development we offer our staff, and on the professionalism demonstrated in their work. Our commitment to the well being of our service users underpins every aspect of service delivery.
We also recognise our responsibilities for effective use of resources and appropriate placement of clients. Priory Group has a history of implementing appropriate services that have been mutually beneficial to commissioning and contracting teams, and can demonstrate sedulity in our commitment to public sector partnership work. Our focus on careful management of costs to deliver the standards of service described benefits overall budget management by a public sector facing a contraction of funding.
Children's care homes
Provision of registered managers for Gloucestershire County Council's children's homes
From December 2007 until December 2008, Priory Education Services managed Gloucestershire County Council's Children's Homes, providing registered managers for the overall management and quality assurance. This successful interim management arrangement meant close partnership working between Gloucestershire Council Officers and Priory Education Services senior staff who contributed to Council children's development groups, including Looked After children, Behaviour Management and Education Support. Statutory Regulation 33 monitoring visits and OfSTED inspections reinforced the success of Priory Education Services improving the quality of service in the care homes.