Social Care

In 2003 Camphill Community Clanabogan joined the Supporting People programme, a government initiative to enable people with special and complex needs to choose where they live and how they are supported.  For people choosing life in Camphill, housing support and personal support is funded by the scheme and provided by coworkers and support workers in the community.

Clanabogan is also registered as a Domiciliary Care Agency to provide the personal and intimate care that people need.

As a registered Day Care facility we can also offer work and day activities to a number of people from the locality who want to take advantage of the work opportunities existing in our work areas whether inside or outdoors.

The Health Trust to which a person belongs is responsible for funding their personal care and day activities.

Other state benefits provide the individual with money for personal expenses, holidays, travel etc according to need.

Since 2007 the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) has been the body empowered to regulate and inspect organisations providing social care.

The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) established in 2001 registers and regulates social care workers in order to maintain standards, raise professional practice and protect the public.

Social Therapy

The social care ethos of Clanabogan is founded on the holistic and therapeutic principles of Anthroposophy and the innovative work of Rudolf Steiner and Dr Ita Wegman with children with disabilities at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Dr Karl König was inspired by this as a core impulse when with his friends he established the first community which was later called Camphill.

As the children grew up Karl König also developed his ideas about a suitable life and social setting for them as adults.

The first Village Community was founded in 1955 and since then dozens of similar villages have been established, each with their own character, in the UK and internationally.

Social Therapy is the term used for life and/or work within a mutually supportive, co creative social environment, based on Anthroposophy, with adults with special needs, including those with complex needs, mental health problems and the elderly, as well as any other vulnerable and disadvantaged adults.

The Council for Anthroposophic Health and Social Care (CAHSC) was founded in 2003 and relaunched 2009 to promote excellence in anthroposophic care and protect the public through registering people working in these fields who have demonstrated that they are trained and competent.

The Anthroposophical Curative Education and Social Therapy Association in Great Britain and Ireland (ACESTA) is the professional association for this work.

Web sites:        www.ahasc.org.uk

www.cahsc.org.uk

We are committed to offering a supportive, mutually interdependent lifestyle which promotes individual fulfilment embedded in an enriching social organism for people who choose this and commit themselves to it.  Being inspired by Anthroposophy, living out of the Camphill values and principles which have endured for 70 years, and meeting professional requirements and standards:

these combine to keep the Community alive, growing and developing and able to meet the challenges of today and the future.