Ethos and Outcomes

To provide a safe, friendly, loving and enjoyable environment where children and young people can be supported, encouraged and challenged to develop their resilience, empathy, confidence and skills which they will rely on to lead a happy and fulfilled life.

We aim:

To offer a specialist residential service for the children and young people of Greater Manchester aged up to seventeen years of age on admission, with a range of psychological, emotional and behavioural issues within a small, family-style home environment.
To deliver high quality accommodation, exceptional care, and research led model of social and educational development.
To be able to provide clear and meaningful evidence of the outcomes and impact on the lives of our young people.
To maintain long term stable and effective placements for children and young people and young people in our care.
To significantly enhance the life chances of young people within our care.
To provide a centre of excellence that offers a high level of therapeutic based support and social care to young people within a safe, structured and stimulating environment, in which they benefit from their placement and come to regard it as a positive, life-enhancing experience to build on.
To provide an environment, within which all persons are respected and valued as individuals, while reducing the stigma and discrimination often accompanying psychological and social issues.
To offer a holistic programme of care that is tailored to young people’s individual needs.
To provide a care programme comprising psychological, therapeutic, social and educational support as part of a comprehensive care plan for each young person.
To promote contact between the young person and his or her family and friends when it is appropriate to do so.
To provide a structured programme of care-partnership between the young person, his or her family and friends, Children’s social care, and other professionals involved in the young person’s care or welfare.
To work with the young people in prompting their independence, while facilitating their confidence and trust in other people.
To promote the values of a multi-cultural and diverse society in which all people are valued as persons of worth regardless of their age, ethnicity, religion, gender, sex, sexuality or disability.
To demonstrate tolerance and understanding of the needs of others while respecting the rights and needs of the individual.