Residential care - children

Service Outline

Children's homes are there to ensure that the needs of children are met when they cannot live with their own family.

When children and young people come to live in a children's home they will have a care plan. Their care plan says why a child is living in a home, what is supposed to happen while they are living there and what is supposed to happen at the end of their stay. Most children will go home, but a few go to live with other families and a few go to live in other homes.

It is very important that children and young people stay in touch with their family and friends. It is only when they might be hurt, or a court order says that contact is not allowed, that some children will not be able to have visits from their family or go to visit them.