Residential childcare
A safe and loving home is what every child
and young person deserves.
For over 140 years, we've been helping children and young people
who are unable to live with their families and need a supportive
home. Providing a positive choice for those with the most complex
and challenging needs through a range of residential homes and
services.
What we do
Flexible, needs-led support and care - that's what we
provide. With an experienced, qualified, dedicated and caring
team, we ensure a nurturing, structured and homely environment.
It's about providing a place where children and young people can
feel valued, stay safe and grow strong.
We're there with comprehensive transition planning and support.
Working together, with children and young people, professionals,
parents and local communities, we help ensure those in residential
care get the same life chances as their peers.
Providing access to support services to improve outcomes
With services like our Intensive Supervised Structured Care
(ISSC) Project in Ayrshire, we helpyoung people at risk of going
into secure or long-term residential care. By helping them
understand their behaviour, social issues and offending, they're
supported to make positive choices in the future.
The service works in partnership with all Scottish Local
Authorities to identify the individual needs of young people.
ISSC offers a robust community-based alternative that puts in place
structured and individual care plans that will support
offence-focused intervention, individual and group work programmes
of social care, life skills and education/training, and intensive
and supervised staff support for every young person.
It can be difficult for those in residential care to form new,
positive relationships because of past experiences. Our integrated
therapeutic support helps young people get a sense of belonging and
identity. It's about building confidence and self-esteem,
improving outcomes each step of the way.
"Before I came here I didn't like to help people, but since I
came here staff are so nice to me and I am nice to other
people."
A young person in our residential childcare services
Quality assurance
Our services in Scotland have received positive feedback from
the Scottish Care Commission,with all of our services gaining
grades of 'good', 'very good' or 'excellent'. This is in addition
to our services in England receiving a grade of 'Good' overall with
three 'outstanding' grades, and our Welsh inspection report stating
'This is a very positive inspection for this service'.