Team Training We Provide

Integrity provides training designed to support professionals in residential homes for children and young people. The training aims to equip individuals with the necessary ​awareness, skills, and competencies to effectively care for and ensure the safety of children.

We advocate for collaborative work with broader networks to enhance safe and effective care practices. This includes proper responses, documentation, reporting, and ​referrals that prioritize the well-being of children.

Tailored courses can be created to address specific needs and preferences.

Integrity training is committed to staying current with best practices in training. Additional courses will be introduced as they become available.

lEADERSHIP consultancy oFFER

Integrity provides consultancy services that aim to empower teams and leaders in navigating ​and supporting the complexities of trauma-informed environments.

Our objective is to promote healthy cultures, sustainable systems, and safe practices through a ​child-centered approach.

We strive to improve child and youth-centered care, professional skills, and nurturing ​environments.

Collaborating with partners, we offer support in leadership planning and guidance for those ​establishing or enhancing children's homes.

Integrity is ready to address service needs post-inspection by offering action plans, compliance ​notices, as well as policy and procedure development and review.

Our consultancy at Integrity assists in registration preparations and devises strategies to uphold ​the ethos and vision of homes and environments as they progress.

Ne​w Homes

Integrity provides consultancy services that assist with the development or review of the ​following:

Model of Care Consideration

Systems and Processes building

Policy and document templates

Guidance around safer recruitment

Workforce development planning

Supporting Statement of Purpose review

Locality Risk assessment support

Risk assessment guidance

Registration preparations

Signposting to services that can assist covenants of changes of use

Signposting to health and safety service and Fire Risk assessments

For more than twenty years, Leanne Gilbey has been a guiding figure in the field of ​Health and Social Care. With 16 years dedicated to the NHS, she has served as a ​nurse in inpatient and Community Mental Health services. Working closely with ​multidisciplinary teams, Leanne has assisted both young people and adults in ​finding paths to improved mental health and overall well-being.

In her role as a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Leanne brings a wealth of ​experience to the Integrity team. Leanne is also trained in emotional regulat​ion interventions and cognitive behavioral approaches, skills she has refined over ​the years. Prior to specializing in mental health, Leanne worked in general nurs​ing war​d​s.

Through her extensive background, Leanne has been instrumental in support​ing learning and development for individuals encountering various mental hea​lth challenges like anxiety, depression, emotional regulation difficulties, attachm​ent issues, self-harm, and suicidal though​t​s.

Recently, Leanne teamed up with Dave at Integrity Training, combining th​eir expertise to provide safe, effective, and evidence-based training directly​ to services. Their joint mission is to cater to the training requirements of servi​ces dedicated to children and young people, and they are excited to collaborate w​ith you to address your service's training nee​ds.

Embarking on a compassionate journey, Dave Hughes has dedicated more than 17 years to ​supporting children, young people, and families for over 17 years since 2007. Dave has served as a ​Registered Manager for children and young people's homes and as a Responsible Individual on two ​occasions.

Dave has collaborated with local authorities, and public and private sector services, covering areas ​such as youth teams, youth offending, early help, secure estate, dual diagnosis settings, homeless ​and resettlement services.

Dave has closely collaborated with multiple agencies, extended services, and safeguarding ​partners, taking a holistic approach. He has also conducted training for the Police, health and social ​care, and education. Dave's expertise extends to providing comprehensive training to new and ​existing children's home teams, facilitating homes to register with Ofsted and conducting ​independent regulation 44 visits.

In 2019, Dave co-founded, developed, and managed a therapeutic community offering care to ​children and young people, with 24 homes providing psychological therapy and life stories. ​Additionally, Dave offers therapeutic support to professionals caring for children and young people.

From September 2023 to June 2024, Dave supported a therapeutic community through two ​compliance notices, a thematic historic safeguarding review, the development of a full suite of ​policies and procedures, and provided consultation support to the Senior Leadership Team as part ​of service redesign and relaunch.