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Take a look around The Willows 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

  • Emotionally behaviour difficulties
  • Complex trauma
  • Self harm / suicide ideation

Head of Local Authority Feedback:

"I am extremely impressed with Oakfield’s professionalism and attention to detail, the approach is child centred and all risk assessments and intervention plans are focused on promoting the developmental needs of the young person. Accordingly, I have found the team to be very co-operative and engaging, targets and goals are routinely set which allows for the network to measure performance and outcomes.

Most importantly, our young person is happy and feels like they are making progress, this is significant and emphasises the value of your service and provision."

Home’s strengths

What The Willows excels in:

  • Complex behaviours / presentation

  • Complex challenging behaviour

  • Adverse childhood trauma

  • Complex Childhood sexual exploitation (CSE)

  • Significant Self-harm

  • Experience of inpatient setting

  • ASD presentation

  • Multiple placement breakdowns

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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