Kibble Education & Care Centre

Kibble is Scotland's specialist provider of services for at risk children and young people. By providing a range of integrated services, we help build positive futures for young people with complex social, emotional and educational needs. As one of Scotland's oldest charities, and today a leading social enterprise, Kibble works with children and young people aged 5+. We recognise every person is unique - that's why we provide tailored support to ensure each young person gets the transitional support they need to overcome trauma, and lead happy, healthy and fulfilled lives. Through our range of services, we support young people to reach their full potential. Our services include: residential care, secure care, primary and secondary education, intensive fostering, young workforce development, outreach services and preventative and rehabilitative community services.

We are currently developing our mentoring model for new recruits/induction. We have trained around 58 mentors and are looking to expand this. We have been delivering this in-house and still have some work to do around the sustainability of the model. We have developed a robust mentoring model that supports the Child and Youth Care Trainee programme and we are now about to begin with our 9th cohort of trainees.