BERRI equips supported accommodation providers with a clear, holistic overview of a young person’s psychological wellbeing and developmental journey. By generating individualised reports, the platform streamlines professional decision-making and allows support teams to demonstrate progress and changing needs to social workers, commissioners, and Ofsted. Alongside the core platform, the Skills and Knowledge for Independent Living Scale (SKILS) precisely measures a young person’s readiness for independent living.
BERRI gives supported accommodation providers a clear, holistic overview of a young person’s psychological wellbeing and evolving needs. You can use this information to better understand whether a referral is appropriate, to know how to support the young person better, and to see the impact you are making as the scores change over time. You can share this data with Ofsted, commissioners, social workers to evidence the impact you are making on the young people you care for, and with colleagues in education and healthcare so that they also understand the young person’s needs - ensuring that they receive the right support across services.
The BERRI system asks the right questions to allow any user to enter their observations about the young person into our simple questionnaires. It then scores and interprets them instantly, to make the results immediately useful to you. By transforming complex data into instant, individualised reports, BERRI supports professional decision-making and allows care teams to easily evidence progress and the young person’s changing needs to social workers, commissioners, and Ofsted. From tailoring targeted support strategies to identifying key areas for life-skill development, BERRI delivers the clinical backing and measurable insights necessary to successfully guide young people toward a confident, autonomous future.
There is also an additional easy-to-complete scale to gather the voice of the young person - so that you can understand their perspective on their care and how their life is going.
Regular use of BERRI:
Identifies needs and tracks progress and changes for young people with a wide range of needs, including transitional requirements and post-18 plans for those with higher ongoing need for support.
Provides a clear measure and evidence of support efficacy, quality, and independent living outcomes.
Delivers robust evidence of what support strategies are working and the tangible outcomes achieved.
BERRI is designed to be an accessible tool for everyone - with no specialist qualifications needed and resources available to support confident use across your team.
Shows the level of need of the young people in your service, benchmarked against UK data norms for supported accommodation settings.
Produces useful profiles, graphs, and reports.
Targets and tracks the specific independent living goals and concerns you are actively working on.
Provides comprehensive overview data about the young people your service supports.
Helps identify early warning signs to prevent placement breakdowns.
Provides the evidence required to support professional decision-making and pathway planning.
Supports with Ofsted compliance and meeting the Quality Standards for supported accommodation.
Up-skills your workforce and promotes support staff confidence and retention.
BERRI is used and trusted by Supported Accommodation providers across the UK to support practices and improve outcomes for young people. To see an example case study of how BERRI has been used in practice, and what they achieved, please click here.
