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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2025
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 February 2024
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31 January 2025
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 January 2025
Basis of measurement and preparation
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Making Families Count CIC was registered as a CIC on 14th February 2019. We have two aims: i) To provide training, information and advice to professionals working in public, private and voluntary organisations providing health and social care services within the UK, specifically where there has been significant harm or traumatic bereavement to service users and their families and based on the lived experience of those families. ii) To improve engagement between such services and families to prevent serious harm. We aim to ensure that families affected by these issues are given better support, training, information and advice. Our team includes families with lived experience together with experienced serious incident investigators and reviewers from the NHS and the voluntary sector. In the financial year 2024/25, we have benefitted the community by: - Delivering a number of bespoke face to face training sessions to specific NHS trusts and organisations. The numbers attending our series of webinars was disappointing. As a result, the directors took the decision to cancel the majority of them. It was agreed to review the programme as part of a more strategic review of our priorities next year. - We continue to be seen as an organisation that the NHS identifies for collaborative working. We continue to deliver a training programme for a local authority in conjunction with Autism Oxford, a national charity. This work has now been offered nationally to other local authorities. We also work with Gateway Training & Consultancy, a national training organisation, by offering speakers with lived experience showing why family engagement is so vital to good patient care and safety. - Last year we continued as the lead partner with Oxford Health in the ‘Life Beyond the Cubicle’, project, developing eLearning resources which aim to support healthcare staff to engage effectively with families when a family member experiences mental health crises. The project, funded by NHS England (Health Education England legacy funds) is now complete. The resources are published on the NHS England eLearning platform, launched at a number of online and face to face events and we have commenced facilitated training using the resources. - Our expert speakers continue to provide input to national and local NHS and social care conference events across the UK, generating income for the organisation and helping to raise our profile. - We continue our communication channels, via online blogs and social media platforms, to share the lived experiences of families.
Our stakeholders are families who have suffered a serious harm and/or traumatic bereavement and professionals working in health and social care and the voluntary sector. We undertake regular monitoring and evaluation and seek feedback from those NHS and social care organisations we work with, using this feedback to improve and develop our work. The ‘Life Beyond the Cubicle’ project included an independent evaluation, which found that the resources supported reflective practice, encouraged clinicians to feel more confident about the importance of engaging with families and 77% said that they would improve their practice as a result of the learning. We have a small group of families who have experienced serious harm or traumatic bereavement to help us in developing new resources in relation to our project work. We held a general meeting for our members in April 2024 to outline proposed developments and to seek their views on future work.
Directors are entitled to receive fees plus any expenses for the preparation and delivery of training on behalf of the organisation, in line with the organisation’s policies. Directors received remuneration in form of Subcontractor fees, see full details in our full accounts. For transparency/accountability Director fees is split out from non-director subcontractor fees on the detailed Profit & Loss. Director’s subcontractor fees for the year = £8,582.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
2 October 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: David Smith
Status: Director