About Us
Residential Family Centre * Family Support Services * Contact Centre
* Therapeutic Services * Independent Social Work Assessments * Parenting Programmes
Purple Elephant in the Room was founded in 2013 to better support families who were falling through the cracks of standard intervention services. We provide bespoke services and social work assessments to local authorities, courts, solicitors and private clients across the South West.
Our Residential Family Centre is Ofsted Registered.
Our contact centre in Taunton is accredited by the National Association of Child Contact Centres (NACCC).
Our Reputation
Purple Elephant in the Room has an excellent reputation providing specialist social work assessments, family support and intervention, parenting groups and therapeutic services. We pride ourselves on delivering holistic services based on a parent's or family's individual needs.
Purple Elephant in the Room deliver a number of free and low costs services to better support the communities that we work within.
Our Approach
Purple Elephant in the Room's aim is, wherever possible, to keep families together by providing an individual approach to assessment, observation, support and intervention.
Purple Elephant in the Room supports children, parents and carers individually and as a whole family to address practical, emotional and behavioural barriers that may prevent families remaining together.
We build on families' strengths whilst helping them address their needs.
The purpose of all the services provided by Purple Elephant in the Room is to make a positive difference to the lives of children and their families.
Our Experience
Purple Elephant in the Room have developed a multi-disciplinary team to provide support to families with children of all ages.
Our team of social workers, family support workers, counsellors and psychotherapists have extensive experience working with parents and children who have multiple complex needs; learning disabilities, mental health issues, domestic abuse, drug and alcohol misuse, children with behavioural problems and other difficulties.
We support local authorities, schools, health services and other organisations with bespoke support packages and services.
We can provide a complete package of physical and emotional interventions to support parents to safeguard children in our residential family centre or in their homes during court proceedings.
How We Can Help
Purple Elephant in the Room supports parents to care for their children in their own homes for up to 24 hours a day.
We also provide supervised contact services in our Taunton NACCC accredited contact centre and in the community across the South West.
We support local authorities, social workers and courts by providing them with information to help them decide whether a child is safe to live with their parent/s and what support they might need to make this happen.
Purple Elephant in the Room deliver a variety of programmes, workshops and therapeutic services to help parents make positive changes. These courses can be delivered in our own therapeutic centre or at a location based on the needs of the parent/s.
We provide a variety of support services to children and young people, including therapeutic direct work, sexual harm support and life story work.
In order to support parents and expectant parents who are not suitably housed or the risks are too high for the child in the community, Purple Elephant in the Room has a residential family centre.
Our aim is, wherever possible, to keep families together by providing an individual approach to assessment, observation, support and intervention.
Who we've worked with
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