Maximising potential

Plans for the future

National Star will focus on staff retention and development

Maximising potential

We are passionate about maximising the impact of our work and increasing the number of young people with disabilities who are able to realise their potential.

While National Star supports hundreds of young people and their families every year, there are hundreds more who are unable to realise their potential. For National Star to realise its aspirations for others, we need to focus on being the best that we can be by developing our staff and improving our facilities, processes and systems. It is critical to the charity’s success that our services are of the highest quality and remain so as we expand. Protecting that quality is a key priority for the charity in the years ahead. The young people we work with and care for deserve nothing less.

Having the right people with the right skills will ensure we provide high quality education, care and support. That is why the charity is focusing on recruiting the best multi–disciplinary teams and investing in their professional development. The charity will focus on staff development and retention in the years ahead, with a particular emphasis on the development of leadership and management skills across the organisation.

To have the capacity to grow, the charity also needs to build expertise, improve internal systems and processes and invest in facilities. The high quality of facilities and specialist equipment underpin the quality of our provision. Another priority in the years ahead is to further safeguard our financial security by investing in additional income opportunities beyond local authority and health funding, while improving the quality of life for young people with complex disabilities. We will do that by developing a programme of information and knowledge sharing activities for professionals and families, nationally and beyond the UK. By sharing our expertise through training and consultancy, we will also share our best practice.

By maximising the charity’s potential, we can then grow our services and increase the number of young people with disabilities accessing National Star’s high quality services so that they can realise their own potential. The level of care and services for young people with disabilities varies enormously across the country. We will work with local authorities to provide more services in the areas where there is the greatest need and where National Star may be well placed to make a difference.

We will look to provide more education and personal development programmes in more locations so that more young people can access them. We aim to create more long–term living communities so that young adults with disabilities have the right support to live as they wish and continue to develop their potential.

We know what young people with disabilities can achieve with the right level of high quality care and support. We want to be a shining example to those commissioning, those providing services and those benefiting from those services across the whole of the UK.

We will do that by working more closely with the community, employers and other organisations and focus on the long–term benefits of appropriate care and personal development for the young people themselves and for the wider society. We want more people to see for themselves what potential young people with disabilities have.