Our Homes

Our homes are set up to provide a safe, stable and nurturing environment, with consistency for each young person. Promoting education, health and wellbeing, safety, enjoyment and achievement whilst developing positive relationships. The structure of our homes enables and encourages young people to develop the skills required to live within a family structure and our staff offer a high level of consistency to deal with the young person’s identified needs.

Encouraging physical and leisure activities are fundamental to our model of care due to the positive holistic benefits, including the opportunity to experience success and a sense of achievement for our young people. Our service actively consults young people in the home and introduces them to a wide variety of activities, this enables young people to find something favourable to them and meets their specific individual needs.

Young people within the care system can often feel that they are isolated and ‘different’. At our homes, we strive to break that stigma and provide opportunities and a positive experience for each young person. Guidance Care believes that a residential experience can, and should be, positive for young people and that our service provides this.

Values We Believe In

Residential care should provide young people with skilled support from our committed staff in a safe, caring and ordered environment. We have a responsibility to ensure that our young people in our residential care are protected from abuse and neglect and that care should form part of a range of services.

These services are to meet the young person’s needs and support their families and carers. We recruit and support staff that are carefully selected and have opportunities to develop skills and professional practice through training and supervision. We have many values which are important to the home and for the young people who are looked after.

  • Dignity and Respect: recognising the value of young people, their uniqueness and their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
  • Equality: ensuring that the services and facilities of the home are accessible and available to all. The service provided by our staff should not judge children and young people’s circumstances, backgrounds and lifestyles. It should not discriminate on the grounds of race, culture, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexuality or disability. Individuality will be valued.
  • Quality: promoting quality services which are based on agreed standards and meet legal and good practice requirements.
  • Independence: a commitment to provide opportunities for young people to think and act independently whilst ensuring their safety. To include a young person’s need for privacy.
  • Development and fulfilment: recognition that young people are children first. Encouragement will be given to realise their full potential and help children and young people achieve their hopes and ambitions and to develop their abilities in their daily lives. A commitment to ensure they have a good start in life.
  • Confidentiality: treating all personal information in confidence.

Dignity

Equality

Development

Confidence

The provision of a high standard of care within a stable environment to achieve the objectives in the care plans of young people we look after.

A policy of equal opportunities, including the consideration of positive action to ensure equality of opportunity.

We strive to offer a comprehensive range of activities to help fulfil the needs of the young people through adventure and experiences.

Our Homes

Our homes are set up to provide a safe, stable and nurturing environment, with consistency for each young person. Promoting education, health and wellbeing, safety, enjoyment and achievement whilst developing positive relationships. The structure of our homes enables and encourages young people to develop the skills required to live within a family structure and our staff offer a high level of consistency to deal with the young person’s identified needs.

Encouraging physical and leisure activities are fundamental to our model of care due to the positive holistic benefits, including the opportunity to experience success and a sense of achievement for our young people. Our service actively consults young people in the home and introduces them to a wide variety of activities, this enables young people to find something favourable to them and meets their specific individual needs.

Young people within the care system can often feel that they are isolated and ‘different’. At our homes, we strive to break that stigma and provide opportunities and a positive experience for each young person. Guidance Care believes that a residential experience can, and should be, positive for young people and that our service provides this.

Values We Believe In

Residential care should provide young people with skilled support from our committed staff in a safe, caring and ordered environment. We have a responsibility to ensure that our young people in our residential care are protected from abuse and neglect and that care should form part of a range of services.

These services are to meet the young person’s needs and support their families and carers. We recruit and support staff that are carefully selected and have opportunities to develop skills and professional practice through training and supervision. We have many values which are important to the home and for the young people who are looked after.

  • Dignity and Respect: recognising the value of young people, their uniqueness and their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
  • Equality: ensuring that the services and facilities of the home are accessible and available to all. The service provided by our staff should not judge children and young people’s circumstances, backgrounds and lifestyles. It should not discriminate on the grounds of race, culture, language, religious beliefs, gender, sexuality or disability. Individuality will be valued.
  • Quality: promoting quality services which are based on agreed standards and meet legal and good practice requirements.
  • Independence: a commitment to provide opportunities for young people to think and act independently whilst ensuring their safety. To include a young person’s need for privacy.
  • Development and fulfilment: recognition that young people are children first. Encouragement will be given to realise their full potential and help children and young people achieve their hopes and ambitions and to develop their abilities in their daily lives. A commitment to ensure they have a good start in life.
  • Confidentiality: treating all personal information in confidence.

Dignity

Equality

Development

Confidence

The provision of a high standard of care within a stable environment to achieve the objectives in the care plans of young people we look after.

A policy of equal opportunities, including the consideration of positive action to ensure equality of opportunity.

We strive to offer a comprehensive range of activities to help fulfil the needs of the young people through adventure and experiences.