Julie Swan

Whenever the children get to bed, the fathers, some of the fathers are there after them and they would do candle make and they'll do, you know, games, different stuff with them so that the mothers feel involved as well.

And they may not be able to out during the day because of children and cooking and homework, stuff like that.

But at least there's something, you know, a social thing for them to meet up in the evenings so that they can get together.

Yeah.

that is a huge impact on staff, you know, especially when families are moved out or, as Anthony said, we had a family here and they moved out.

They had been here for a couple of years and staff were heartbroken because not only do they have their key worker, you know, the rest of the staff actually linking it on with them.

Everybody was heartbroken to see them moving out.

We have another family, they moved out and she came back a couple of days later to get some of her stuff and the little fella thought, you know, I'm going back home to my friends.

Because this is where he'd grown up.

This is where his friends were.

The staff deal with the different issues.

We do staff meetings every week.

And we also link in with the staff.

If staff have an issue, they'll come and sit and talk to us, work through it.

If they have a difficulty with one of their families, we'll all sit down as a team and we work this stuff out.

Obviously, if there's something in their family that has impacted them, they'll come and they'll sit down and talk because...

You know, not only are we here for the families, we're here for the staff as well.

We have to make sure that their well-being is OK, because if they're OK and they're happy, they'll do their job an awful lot better.

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