Specialist Residential Care
High-quality therapeutic homes for children and young people who are unable to remain in the family home, for whatever reason.
Our Offering
Care designed around every young person.
From day one, we build trusted relationships and shape support around each child's strengths, needs and aspirations.
Safe & Homely Environments
Warm, family-style settings that create a true sense of belonging, safety and stability.
Empowering Futures
Tailored support for growth, confidence and personal aspirations - built on trusted relationships.
Therapeutic Support
Trauma-responsive care rooted in attachment theory and the House Model of Parenting, with psychologically informed practice throughout.
Education & Enrichment
Working in partnership with schools and tutors to support learning, life skills and future opportunities.
Family & Local Authority Liaison
Close collaboration with families, social workers and local authorities to plan the best outcomes.
Tiers of support
Core, Enhanced or Specialist - matched to each young person.
Every young person receives our trauma-responsive Core offer. Depending on need, this can be layered with Enhanced or Specialist therapeutic input and assessment depth. The right tier is ascertained at the point of referral and decided collaboratively with the young person, key stakeholders and the wider professional network.
Our graduated model recognises that many young people are not immediately ready to engage with formal therapeutic services. By embedding therapeutic thinking into everyday relationships and care, we provide flexible, child-centred support that complements CAMHS and wider NHS provision, helps reduce pressure on external services, and promotes earlier intervention, placement stability and stronger long-term outcomes.
Trauma-responsive residential care as our foundation.
Our universal offer for every child living with us - a safe, stable, family-style home built on consistent relationships, predictable routines and trauma-responsive practice.
- •Small home (max. 3 children) with a consistent, well-matched staff team
- •Individual care plan, risk assessment and Positive Behaviour Support plan
- •Embedded use of PACE, attachment theory and the House Model of Parenting
- •Reflective practice and trauma-informed supervision for the staff team
- •Monthly group consultation and training via our psychology partners
Additional therapeutic input shaped around identified need.
For young people whose assessment indicates a need for more structured therapeutic input alongside their day-to-day care. Built collaboratively with commissioners, social workers and the young person themselves.
- •Psychological formulation of the young person's profile and needs
- •Bespoke staff training and team-around-the-child workshops
- •Increased frequency of reflective practice and clinical consultation
- •1:1 therapeutic sessions (e.g. CBT, Theraplay, art therapy, EFT) where indicated
- •Outcome tracking and review built into the care planning cycle
Intensive, fully integrated clinical and care partnership.
Our highest level of therapeutic provision - for young people with complex, intersecting needs who benefit from a fully integrated clinical wrap-around alongside residential care.
- •Comprehensive psychological assessment and ongoing formulation
- •DDP-informed therapy and dyadic work where appropriate
- •Weekly reflective practice and live clinical supervision for staff
- •Multi-disciplinary involvement with health, education and placing authorities
- •Bespoke pathways for transitions, step-down and longer-term planning
Step 1
Referral & initial assessment
We review the young person's profile, history and current need alongside the placing authority at point of referral.
Step 2
Collaborative matching
Tier of support is decided jointly with commissioners and brokerage, the allocated social worker, the young person and the wider professional network.
Step 3
Tailored care & review
Therapeutic input and assessment depth flex to need. Tiers are reviewed as the young person grows - they are not fixed labels.
Who we care for
Children and young people with complex, overlapping needs.
We care for children aged 6 to 17 of any gender - up to three at a time in any one home - who may have experienced trauma, loss, instability or disrupted attachments. We see the child beyond the label, focusing on lived experience, relational needs, strengths and emerging identity.
Matching is always thoughtful and risk-assessed, considering the existing group, staff competency and the physical environment, so every placement is safe, ethical and built for stability.
- ✦Trauma, neglect or disrupted attachment experiences
- ✦Emotional, behavioural and relational difficulties
- ✦Neurodivergence, developmental differences and/or mild-to-moderate learning disabilities
- ✦Mental health needs and diagnoses, including anxiety and emotional dysregulation
- ✦Mild substance or alcohol misuse concerns
- ✦Young people subject to restrictions on their liberty
Our therapeutic approach
Lived out in everyday care - not bolted on.
We intentionally integrate therapeutic thinking into the rhythm of daily life. Mealtimes, bedtime routines, conflict and play are all understood as opportunities for healing, repair and growth.
House Model of Parenting
Golding's model provides our therapeutic spine - safety, structure, stability and belonging as the foundation for secure, trusting relationships.
DDP & PACE
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy principles and a daily PACE stance - Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy - across every interaction.
ARC Framework
Attachment, Regulation and Competency - guiding how we build co-regulation, predictable routines and developmental competencies over time.
+ProActive Approaches
BILD ACT (RRN) accredited training - that give our team practical tools to reduce restrictive practice, reduce incidents, and create safer environments.
Positive Behavioural Support
A values-led, person-centred approach that understands behaviour as communication, and builds the skills, relationships and environments that help young people thrive.
Trauma-informed, reflective supervision
Regular in-house reflective supervision that holds the emotional weight of the work, supports staff wellbeing, and keeps practice consistent, curious and trauma-responsive.
In partnership with Meadows Psychology Service
Meadows Psychology Service provide our wider clinical wrap-around - bringing depth, independence and specialist expertise to the team around each young person.
- •Bespoke staff training and CPD
- •Reflective practice and clinical consultation
- •Psychological formulation of children's profiles
- •Assessments and outcome-focused review
- •Direct therapeutic input where indicated
Backed by deep in-house expertise
Our leadership team brings academic and clinical grounding into the day-to-day life of the home - so therapeutic thinking shapes practice from the inside, not just from outside consultation.
- •MSc in Psychiatry (specialism in trauma) and Master's in Applied Behaviour Analysis at Operations Director level
- •+ProActive Approaches Train-the-Trainer accreditation in-house
- •Trauma-informed reflective supervision - trained by Dr Karen Treisman MBE