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Updates from our homes, our teams and the wider children's residential care sector — written by the people doing the work, not by a marketing department.
Featured · Practice
Eighteen months ago we made a decision that costs us more every month: no agency cover, in any home, under any circumstances. Our home manager explains what that decision has meant for placement stability, for incident rates and for the young people who no longer meet a stranger at bedtime.
· 6 minute read
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Our homes
Our Orrell Park, Liverpool home is now open, with a full permanent staff team, supervision and therapeutic support in place from day one rather than added later.
· 3 minute read
Practice
How monthly reflective practice sessions and consistent supervision are changing the way our teams respond to distress — and why the handover conversation matters as much as the care plan.
· 5 minute read
Careers
A new fully funded route supporting experienced practitioners towards home manager roles, with mentoring from our responsible individual and protected study time.
· 4 minute read
Education
Why we set a hard deadline for getting young people back into full-time education, how often we hit it, and what we do in the weeks while a school place is being secured.
· 5 minute read
Regulation
Independent monthly visits are central to how we assure quality. We have decided to publish every report unedited, including the recommendations we have not yet completed.
· 3 minute read
Young people
From paint colours to the rules on the fridge door, our young people shaped Nova House before and after it opened. Here is what they chose, and what they told us to change.
· 4 minute read
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