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Take a look around The Acorn residential home.

As specialists in step-down care for young people with complex needs, our Ofsted Registered Therapeutic homes provide safe, stable environments where children can settle and feel supported. Our teams are highly trained in trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches, ensuring consistency and care that meets each young person’s individual needs.

With a strong focus on progress and long-term outcomes, we help young people build confidence, strengthen life skills, and move toward healthier, more fulfilling futures. Every home is designed to nurture growth, reduce risks, and empower young people to thrive in the community.

Care / needs supported

  • Learning needs / difficulties
  • Complex physical / medical needs
  • Complex trauma
  • Complex and challenging behaviour

Advanced Social Worker Feedback:

"The level of therapeutic input is strong and the child has had consistent period of no self-harming incidents or hospitalisations. It is very important to understand the child's history here and level of complexity - as her life has been one of continuous instability and on-going self-harming and suicidal ideation - that has led to her being admitted to a number of psychiatric units (detained under MH legislation) and a 12 month period in secure accommodation. Oakfield is the first placement to work to end this cycle and face/manage the complexity head-on."

"Outside of a secure unit and psychiatric care/detainment this is the most progress (child) has made and efforts to prepare her for community living are intensive and on-going."

Home’s strengths

What The Acorn excels in:

  • Complex physical disabilities

  • Complex learning needs

  • Complex medical needs (PEG/ enteral feeding, Home oxygen, fluid balance)

  • Eating disorder

  • Long term catheterisation

  • Complex sensory needs

  • Brain injury

  • Tracheostomy

Care pathway

An inclusive step-down placement pathway.

Upon referral to our service, our clinical specialist team will undertake an extensive risk assessment of each young person to ensure their complex specific needs are robustly identified and the appropriate level of therapeutic care is implemented in order to meet such needs: red or amber.

Care pathway – learn more

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