Anderida's Blog

New Website For Young People.

We have a well established website for our organisation that has served us well over the years. It sees a lot of traffic and provides a wealth of information to people looking for care for young people to social care students researching for projects. However, we have never had something that the young people can turn to. We have found that young people who know that they are going to be cared for by Anderida will go looking online and take a browse through our website for any kind of insight into what lays ahead for them, and while the website isn’t wholly innappropriate for these young people the site talks of “care for troubled young people” and training in restraint (if you look hard enough). It was for this reason that we decided on creating a site called Your Base.

The site is in its infancy but it summarises on what a young person can look forward to at Anderida; what there is to do in the area; info about the education that Anderida offers and useful numbers like Childline, FRANK and Ofsted. We have found that in the past young people who have been given our young person’s guide have shown great interest in the pictures of staff – understandably looking for a friendly and reassuring face, which is something that we have honed in on with the website. With tongue firmly in cheek, we went about making our version of Top Trumps for some of the willing staff. They gave themselves scores out of ten on four catergories including DIY skills, Cooking Talent, Sporting Ability and Joke Prowess and now we have a wonderful gallery on the Meet The Team page that the kids can have a good laugh at!

The site  will continue to expand and now it’s been constructed the consultation process begins with the young people who will help it grow but with keeping it in-house and off the search engines, we’re not looking at another Facebook just yet.