Morton Lea House

A welcoming home for children and young people aged 6-16 years old. The home has a family atmosphere where the children feel safe, secure and cared for, which allows them to grow and achieve their full potential and can facilitate a maximum of 4 boys.

Dining Room In Morton Lea House
Kitchen In Morton Lea House
Main Living Room In Morton Lea House
Young Person's Bedroom In Morton Lea House
Young Person's Bedroom In Morton Lea House
Young Person's Bedroom In Morton Lea House
Stairs In Morton Lea House

The care team at Morton Lea work hard to provide a therapeutic and nurturing approach to the care they provide for the children. The home has a family atmosphere where the children feel safe, secure and cared for, which allows them to grow and achieve their full potential.  Opportunities to strengthen and develop personal resilience are encouraged and are incorporated into daily life. 

Our home welcomes children and young people aged 6-16 years old and we can facilitate a maximum of 4 boys. These numbers provide high levels of staffing and can ensure that within the home groups can be split into manageable numbers of 2-3 for small activities. This helps to accommodate the friend choices and personal preferences of the children.

We place the children and young people at the heart of all we do, from decision making through Inclusion, to planning and implementing changes and ensuring that the young people are safe, well, happy, striving for positive opportunities that will enhance their life, and meeting all their social, emotional, physical, recreational and educational needs. We access sporting activities, planned days out and a full spectrum of activities, including specific clubs out with the community to enable them to develop their social skills whilst also giving them the confidence to interact/engage with young people of similar age and have similar interests.

Children say that they are happy living in the home and that they receive support from those who care for them. Staff spend time with children, helping them to develop new skills, including cooking meals, shopping for food and budgeting. This will help children as they progress into adulthood.

Ofsted, 2023

Children are healthy and supported to attend medical appointments. Good-quality direct work helps children to understand and reflect on their lives and understand their health needs. A registered nurse is employed by the provider. She provides oversight and involvement in the children’s healthcare arrangements. Staff seek specialist support from external professionals when children need additional services.

Ofsted, 2023

Children are all making progress from their individual starting points. Staff consistently promote education and learning. This is developing children’s confidence. Children’s achievements, however small, are celebrated and appropriately rewarded. One child said, ‘Even if I get a little bit right, they [staff] say well done.’

Ofsted, 2023

Therapy in the home

Forming positive relationships and providing safety are at the centre of our therapeutic care. From this nurturing foundation children can begin to see the world through a new lens to make positive and lasting changes in their lives.

All our care teams are trained in attachment and trauma informed care, meaning children’s complex needs and behaviours are understood and addressed at an emotional and physiological level. These developmental deficits are worked with relationally within the care home environment.

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