Supporting the next generation
TACaccess connects mental health commissioners, children/young people, and therapists with ease and efficiency.
Finding the right help for your specific need can be very tough. With TACaccess you have a community of qualified therapists from around the country waiting to help.
Specialist matching services allow the CYP to choose the therapist they prefer increasing the chance of a positive outcome
Support for face2face and online therapy sessions
Simple, integrated contracts and payments
Simplifying support
Over 18% of CYP’s face mental health challenges at some stage during their education. Getting the right tailored specialist support early significantly improves outcomes. The challenge is navigating access to the right therapist.
Mental health ‘first aid’ provision in educational establishments is often all that can be provided to address these issues. This is due to logistical and budget barriers to seeking specialist support.
The TACaccess platform provides the directory and engagement framework to make this process simple and painless while also reducing the cost of specialist provision.
Reasons to join
For a Commissioning Organisation
One-stop shop for case and budget management
Integrated calendars and control dashboard views
Paperless and seamless payments
For a Therapist
Access to UK-wide commissioning organisations from a single account
Automatic monthly omnibus payments, no invoicing
Case-load calendars automatically maintained
Provision of DBS checking service
For a Parent or
Young Adult
Access to a UK-wide directory of qualified therapists
Ability to choose the right therapist for your child or own specific needs
On-line payments support
Testimonials
“Many United Learning students have benefited from the excellent therapists they connect with through TACaccess. The personal approach, including video profiles, helps to ensure a good match. The positive impact for the children and young people accessing this support is significant.”
Anna Bush
Head of Strategy and Performance
United Learning
“TACaccess is an exciting and powerful tool aiming to help get the best mental health support for children and young people that need it most. It’s a great innovation for schools, colleges and universities.”
Andrew Green
CEO
Chichester College Group
“The Naval Children’s Charity is a national charity providing financial and mental health and wellbeing support to children and young people from serving and veteran Royal Navy families. The children have to cope with many additional challenges as a result of their parents’ service in the Armed Forces and the NCC provide a mixture of holistic, financial and practical support including access to appropriate mental health support when needed.”
Clare Scherer MBE
CEO
Naval Children’s Charity
“TACaccess is wonderfully unique and we are delighted to be working collectively and collaboratively with them. The platform safeguards children and young people and provides easy access to the best counsellors all at the click of a button.”
Jo Holmes
UK Lead for children and
young people
British Association for
Counselling and Psychotherapy
“We are pleased to partner with TACaccess. Their platform ensures a collaborative and safe space, seamlessly connecting children and young people to our highly trained online therapists. It's exciting to witness this professional commitment to safeguarding and enhancing mental health support.”
Basi Amodu
Chair
Association for Counselling
and Therapy Online
“TAC Access is game-changing for empowering children, young people and their families to have autonomy and choice in their therapeutic journey, to which both academic research and real-world stories from people we’ve spoken to can attest its importance. It allows children and young people to create a therapeutic relationship that works for them - one that they’ve had a say and a voice in choosing - and that makes such a difference to the efficacy of therapy, and then in turn to that child and their future.”
Jyles Robillard-Day
CEO
National Counselling
and Psychotherapy Society
Key features
Therapist needs matching and selection process
Clear intuitive interface with integrated video conferencing for on-line sessions
Pre-agreed engagement framework with online contract agreement
Straight-through paperless payment processing
Consolidated budget management and financial reporting
FAQ’s
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TAC = Team Around the Client + Access. Yes, we know it’s an acronym, but it does describe perfectly the service that we offer. Everything we do is based on providing instant access to the best support for children and young people, precisely when they need it the most.
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Sessions can take place either online or face to face. Our extensive data tells us that over 75% of searches are for both. If the session is face-to-face this is in a safe area approved by the commissioner, such as a school, part of the educational establishment, a social care setting or the professional’s premises.
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An educational establishment is any provision registered with a DFE number and therefore regulated.
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You can apply to be registered as a commissioner with TACaccess through a quick online application process. Once approved, you have unlimited access to our UK wide directory, allowing you to filter, review and select from an extensive range of therapists.
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This depends on the qualifications and experience of the therapist meeting each client’s needs. Commissioners can filter and select therapists, with relevant costs displayed in each therapist’s profile. Payment can be made through a client, their parents, carers, social care, health or educational establishment. The big difference with TACaccess is that there are no agency fees and all payments go direct to the therapist.
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At TACaccess, we are proud of the due diligence we carry out before approving therapists for our directory. These include:
Membership of a governed organisation recognised by the PSA, HCPC, or TRA. Please note that to be a member of such an organisation, therapists must meet high standards set by the organisation, which include (but are not limited to) the level of qualification(s), insurance and abide by the ethical framework.
Criminal Records Check E.g. Enhanced DBS, appropriate to workforce;
Identity check.
Please note: You must ensure that you meet your organisation's standards when engaging with a therapist.
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Depending on your organisation, there may be additional checks therapists need to complete E.g. references, safeguarding training for your organisation.
In these circumstances, you can collate a 'favourites' list and ensure your organisational settings only allow therapists from this preferred supplier list to be contacted.
You can also collate a 'Favourites List' and send that list to e.g. a parent / young person to choose a therapist from, rather than the wider directory.
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A person between the ages of 18 to 25 years looking for a therapist to support them.
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All users can sign up and use the platform without any commitment or recurring subscription charge.
The platform is funded by a small transaction fee of 6% levied against therapist charges for courses arranged through the platform. These are included within the agreed course fee and so what is agreed by the course commissioner, parent or young adult is what is paid.
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Yes. At TACaccess, safeguarding is our number one priority. We can arrange DBS checks (including enhanced). We encourage all providers using our platform to subscribe to the online update service.
Please contact hello@tacaccess.com for further information.
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An organisation that is responsible for identifying need, allocating resources and procuring a provider e.g. a therapist, to best meet that need for the client e.g. a child or young person.
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A group of people who work together for a particular purpose. For example, this can be, but not limited to:
Statutory sector: Education, Health or Social Care;
Voluntary sector: Sports Clubs, Charities supporting children and young people;
Private sector: Parent, Children’s Home
etc.
