Contact: Ruth Kalmanovich
Position: Director
Telephone: +447727139170
Email: ruth@hearthomeliving.co.uk

Type of Provision: Residential Children's Home
Total number of children’s homes & other services: 1 Home 3 Beds
Total number of registered beds: 3
Size range of homes: 3 - 4 Beds
Age range on admission: 7 - 18
Specialist services: Therapeutic Model of Care
Other education provision: No
Therapeutic provision: Yes
Other services: In house Psychiatric Care

• Here at Heart and Home Living, we aim for each child to reach their full potential. We aim to:
  ❖ Allow children to develop positive relationships and enrich their lives with opportunities, experiences and activities that will develop valuable life skills. We use creative and pro-active methods to reduce negative and challenging behaviours and develop effective strategies to support children being able to cope and manage more productively with challenging situations.
  ❖ The primary aim is to create an environment of constant warmth, predictability, and responsiveness to need, with the opportunity for children to experience new relationships through positive adult/child and peer group interactions. The purpose of the home is to provide a nurturing homely and safe environment, and to prepare children to move onto the next stage of their lives, this may be a return to their natural family, placement within an alternative family or preparation for independent living. The structure of the home enables children to develop the skills required to live within a group of peers and to offer a high level of consistency to deal with children's complex needs.
  During their stay at the home, it is anticipated that children will be given the opportunities to develop and enhance their practical, social, emotional, and educational skills in order to become part of a family or engage in a smooth transition into another appropriate placement, either family based or residential provision, or to achieve independence successfully.
  The overall outcome we seek to achieve is that the children we care for develop the skills and competencies needed to achieve their potential and functional effectively independently in mainstream society.