Our Impact
An Impact Snapshot Of Our Services
This page shows some of the ways we made an impact from May 2022 through to April 2023
Children And Their Families
We support children and their families to heal from trauma and to make positive changes.
We measured a total of 4023 children and their families who received support during this reporting period.
Specialist Trauma Support
Our team of specialists create a recovery plan suited to each child’s needs and circumstances.
Through our Talk Together project we have offered a combination of parent/carer and child/ren sessions. This is reflected in our beneficiary divide.
2509 Primary Beneficaries
1514 Secondary Beneficaries
Primary Beneficiary
This is someone who has received direct support from a treatment plan. For example, parental sessions, therapy, 1:1 or group, mentoring, consultations, etc.
Secondary Beneficiary
Someone who has benefited indirectly from a treatment plan. For example, a parent who engaged with review sessions, siblings of the referred child, those who were supported by or engaged with signposting, Initial Assessments etc.
A Child Is Always At The Centre
We accept referrals for children from 4 to 18 years old, and up to 25 if there are additional needs.
90% of our service users are aged between 5-15
If the child is younger than 4, we will likely direct the support to the parents. All referrals have a child at the centre and our treatment plans are often family-inclusive. We have recorded improved outcomes when families are included in the support.
Age Group Breakdown
Overall Impact
We have seen sustained year-on-year growth in the total number of people reached, totaling 7363 in this reporting period. To break this down:
We supported 4032 through our core services including; therapy, mentoring, training, parental support, and consultations.
While via community engagement, external training and outreach we supported 3029 people.
Let’s not overlook the importance of our volunteers and fundraising events where we reached 302 people.
We received an average of 31 referrals for new support each week. From 1555 new referrals, 4023 children and their families received support.
Complexity In Need
56.8% of referred children have 4 or more presenting issues, a 13.2% rise from last year. The number of presenting issues offers an indication of case complexity.
Presenting issues include:
OCD traits
Anxiety
Eating Issues
At risk of going on part time / exclusion
Autistic Spectrum Disorders / traits
Risky / criminal behaviours
Drugs use
Feeling of numbness
Bereavement
Bullying
Who Refers?
As our outreach and community engagement activities continue to build, so do our trusted relationships in the community. As a result, a majority of our referrals come from Education and Schools or directly from individuals and families.
Self-referrals/families: 36.6%
Education/schools: 39.5%
Health/GPs/CAMHS: 6.5%
Social care: 7.7%
Other (Police, justice, third sector): 9.7%
Therapy outcomes
We use the Outcomes Star as a user-friendly self-assessment tool with both children and parents.
The graphs below show the percentage progress made in outcome areas, for all clients, within the reporting period. Both indicate that engagement with services results in notable improvements in the measured areas.
Children and Young People Self-Reported Improvements
Family Star Self-Reported Improvements
Trauma Informed Practice training
Over 2090 participants have trained over the past five years on our Trauma-Informed Practice Training informed by child development theories, neuroscience, nervous system resilience, and trauma resolution.
“I feel more confident in being able to self-regulate and therefore support others to do the same.” - Participant
Evaluation & Monitoring
Evaluation and monitoring underpins every element of the Kids Inspire provision.
The collaboration between therapist and service user is central to our approach, reviewing routinely in every single meeting.
What’s next?
2022-23 has seen KI continuing to respond to an ever-changing landscape of need.
The rise in referral numbers, and increasing complexity we have seen children presenting with indicates that help and support is still very much needed, and what’s more is being asked for.
We continue to keep the child at the centre of our work, while thinking about how we can empower the family system around them.
Help us do more
Your support will help us to empower more children, young people and families to make positive life choices.
Fundraising events
From virtual to sporting to festive and challenging.
Mentor
Offer guidance and build trust with a young person.
Volunteer
Our award-winning volunteers help us to achieve so much.
Page updated: 5 February 2024