A message from the Director of Stepping Stones

Good Afternoon.

You probably haven’t heard of Stepping Stones Care yet, but we think it’s time to change that.

We are a relatively new Children’s Residential Homes company. We set-up early in 2020 after winning a contract with the North East London Commissioning Partnership, to deliver a number of Children’s Homes in North East London, aiming to bring Young People in care back into borough.

At present, we have one home in Havering which is open and running smoothly with another in the pipeline for mid-2021. 

Alongside our London cluster, we are well on our way to developing our next cluster of homes in the West Midlands, with 2 homes due to open around February 2021.

It has been a crazy couple of months, with COVID, the uncertainty of lockdown alongside the acquisition and redevelopment of our Midlands properties. We have been working flat out to build out our little single home business into a company with the processes and structure to grow as fast as we want while remaining fundamentally sound and capable of providing a high level of care to our young people.

We have hit a number of massive milestones in the past few weeks:

• Three Young People settled in at our Havering Home with a Fourth Young Person transitioning soon.

• Hired two new managers for our West Midlands homes. 

• We’ve rounded out our full complement of staff in our London home for the first time since opening. 

• Finalised our Company Purpose, Vision & Values. 

• Finalised our 2021 Company Benefits Package. 

• Set in motion the development plan for our new company website. 

Next on our to-do list include:

• The purchase and renovation of our second London home and third Midlands home

• The recruitment of our new Midlands staff teams

• Our brand new company website

• Finalisation of our Company Career Pathway

• Creation of our 2021 Company Roadmap

Over the coming months we will be putting out regular blogs to keep the world up to date with how we as a company are progressing with blogs from our staff, highlights of events in our homes, a peek into a day or a week in our life, and much much more. 

We are always open to feedback and making new acquaintances within the sector, so we hope you will join us on our journey.

Gurpreet Singh
Director

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