Specialist Therapeutic Care & Education

Specialist Therapeutic Care & Education

Amberleigh Care is an Employee-Owned, practice focussed organisation delivering positive change for the benefit of society. We operate two national centres of excellence for young males who have exhibited inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviours.

Our aim is to reduce and prevent the cycle of abuse by helping young people to both recover from their own underpinning trauma, but also to acknowledge and address their own sexual behaviours. Our specialist settings manage and reduce risk through appropriate supervision and the building of pro-social skills and protective factors. All our work is consistent with the NICE guidance in this specialist field which was updated in 2016.

We achieve this through evidence based therapeutic practice delivered by a highly skilled team.

Security for the Future

We were established in 2004 and now twenty years on, we are delighted to have moved to Employee-Owned Trust status. This deliberate change protects the integrity and practice focus of the service for the future, creating a structure that supports long term planning and continuity – to benefit children, our staff and for local authorities.

Responding to the sustainable funding challenges in childrens social care, we wanted to ensure our service had a model based on social good, reinvestment of profit, promoting young people and employee voice, and as an alternative to Private Equity. We have no individual shareholders or dividends, and a robust approach to governance.

This change protects our ongoing commitment to sector development, research, charitable activities and supporting local authorities both in our specialist field of practice, but also in the governance of therapeutic care.

Further details on our Trust journey can be found here…

Our Care

Our Care is all theoretically informed and underpinned by the evidence of ‘what works’ with our specific group of boys

Our Education

The role of education is essential in risk reduction and pro-social development and embraces a wide range of academic and therapeutic activities

Our Therapy

Therapy is probably the most misunderstood element of our work as many people think that it is in the 1:1 sessions that all the work is undertaken

Evidence Base

Applying what works, by putting theory and evidence into practice

Our Care

Our Care is all theoretically informed and underpinned by the evidence of ‘what works’ with our specific group of boys

Our Education

The role of education is essential in risk reduction and pro-social development and embraces a wide range of academic and therapeutic activities

Our Therapy

Therapy is probably the most misunderstood element of our work as many people think that it is in the 1:1 sessions that all the work is undertaken

Evidence Base

Applying what works, by putting theory and evidence into practice

 

Our Service

  • Formal Therapeutic Community group living – externally validated
  • 24 hour therapeutic care
  • Full curriculum education in our own independent schools
  • In house, multi-disciplinary clinical team
  • Full independent transition programme for leaving care
  • Full assessments, informing individual therapy and interventions across care and education using the Good Lives Model
  • 3 monthly, multi-disciplinary reviews of placement plans to maintain progress

Our Success is based on

  • Positive outcomes with young people across all facets of their lives
  • Stable placements, careful matching and planning
  • Value for money for local authorities
  • Smooth & supported transitions to family, supported/ independent living or adult care
  • Effective partnership & multi-agency working
 

Craig’s story

Ben’s story

Jake’s story

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