Company Website: www.halliwellhomes.co.uk
Contact: David Sheffield
Position: Director
Telephone: 0161 437 9491
Email: david.sheffield@halliwellhomes.co.uk

Type of Provision: Halliwell offer a Specialist Recovery Programme for Looked After Children delivered in 5 therapeutic homes each with an onsite Ofsted-registered school. Each child is supported by highly caring therapeutic parents and a full in-house clinical team.
Total number of children’s homes & other services: 5 Residential homes, 5 Onsite Ofsted-Registered Schools
Total number of registered beds: 41
Size range of homes: 1×7 bed, 3×8 bed, 1×10 bed
Age range on admission: 4-12
Specialist services: Our Restorative Parenting® recovery programme delivers a successful step-down transition to a fostering placement with 24 months and a move to a mainstream or community-based education provision within 12 months. Overseen by our highly skilled clinical team, our published model and Restorative programme delivers improved psychological well-being to looked after children.
Names and Qualifications: Clinical Team Members and Qualifications: Dr Fenella Quinn, LLb, MSc, DCounPsy HCPC PYL 29659 Dr Graeme Richardson, BA, MA, MSc, C.Psychol, AFBPsS HCPC PYL19855 Michael James, BA (Hons) Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Studies, Post Grad Dip and MA in Integrative Psychotherapy. Judith James, BA (Hons); Dip App Soc Sc; CQSW; Dip Play Therapy; Cert Management Margaret Taylor BA Hons MA MSc AASW Systemic Family Psychotherapist UKCP Register (PSA Approved) Chloe Burbidge, MSc Psychological Wellbeing in Clinical Practice; BSc in Psychology. Sadie Rodell, BSc Psychology.
Registered school: Willow House School, The Woodlands School, The Brambles School, Maple House School.
Other education provision: Pupils prosper at our schools. A recent Ofsted inspection in March 2020 of Willow House School rated personal development outstanding and found “Pupils thrive during their time at Willow House School. Leaders and staff are aspirational for pupils to succeed. The pupils who spoke to us said that they enjoy coming to school. They told us that they feel safe in school because the adults care about them”.
Therapeutic provision: Halliwell offer an Intensive Therapeutic Recovery Programme delivered constantly and consistently through our practice team. It focuses on addressing the emotional, behavioural, social, and developmental needs of the child. It is clinically informed in every aspect of the child’s lived therapeutic experience with the specific aim of helping traumatised children achieve psychological wellbeing. Some recent feedback we have received “Children at this home make continuous progress. Two children have made successful transitions into foster care after completing the therapeutic programme. Children report feeling loved and cared for. They provide consistently positive feedback about their experience of life in the home. One child reported that she was the happiest she had ever been since coming to live there. One child went so far as to comment: ‘I would give it 10 billion stars!’ External agencies also feel that living at the home benefits children and improves their outcomes. They spoke in highly positive terms about all aspects of children’s care.”
Other services: Halliwell offer a complimentary post-transition support package to all placing local authorities which includes support from our clinical team and Therapeutic Parents. We also offer CPD training for Local Authorities and sector professionals. Consultancy services to Local Authorities & other providers; research and publication of academic articles.

Halliwell is a social enterprise with the mission to enhance the psychological well-being of children in the looked after sector. Our Restorative Parenting® recovery programme delivers psychological recovery to children with high levels of trauma. We aim to achieve recovery in a residential setting within 18-24 months, such that children can make a successful transition to a supported foster placement.

Our support package for foster placements from our clinical and practice teams, enables further intensive re-parenting which is concluded with engagement with therapeutic life story support. The culmination of the programme is for the child to be supported in a low intensity foster placement.

Education is provided by our own on-site Ofsted-registered school at each residential setting and transition into mainstream education is typically achieved within twelve months on the programme. Our programme is led by our clinical team, including Psychologists, Child Therapist, retained Psychiatrist, and Practice Director. This team is overseen by Dr Fenella Quinn and the clinical team provide guidance, assessment, and therapeutic response to the identified needs of each child, as well as consultation and training to enhance the therapeutic environment provided by the practice team.

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