Company Website: www.five-rivers.org
Contact: Sarah Stefano
Position: Head of Residential Services
Telephone: 01722 435750
Email: residential@five-rivers.org, education@five-rivers.org, aandt@five-rivers.org

Type of Provision: Therapeutic, Trauma-Informed Residential Care, Assessment and Therapy Service, Education Services & Fostering Services
Total number of children’s homes & other services: 7 Registered Children’s Homes, Fostering Service, Specialist Education, 1ACE education outreach services, Assessment and Therapy
Total number of registered beds: 26
Size range of homes: We have both solo provisions and 2,3,4,5 and 6 bedded homes
Age range on admission: 6 to 12 years on admission
Specialist services: All our homes offer integrated packages of care, education and therapy, through our Attachment and Trauma-Informed Care model™. This is a trauma-sensitive approach which addresses the impacts of adversity experienced by the children and young people in our care.
Names and Qualifications: Upon request.
Registered school: 3 Registered DfE Schools
Other education provision: 5 DfE Registered Schools. Fountain House and Clannad have on-site education, specialist provision for children in the care of the home. The Spires School provides specialist education for both residential and day pupils. Endeavour House provides education for day pupils only. Park House School operates the 1 ACE programme, providing a creative approach to education for hard-to-reach children and young people.
Therapeutic provision: Five Rivers provides an assessment and therapy service supporting children and young people, carers, and the professionals working with the children and young people in our care. We offer a range of psychological interventions, based on individual needs.
Other services: Our Crisis service is frequently used for children and young people who simply cannot cope with the environment around them. Our Residential service offers a 2:1 care ratio of highly experienced professionals, providing children and young people where possible with a much-needed respite break.

Five Rivers Child Care, founded in 1989, is a leading, independent social enterprise that works with children and young people who require specialist, therapeutic care throughout the UK. We work to support children and young people to rediscover their childhoods, and support them to recover from trauma, abuse and neglect.

We operate from 22 locations around England, guided by a senior leadership team recruited from every key discipline of child care to ensure that our children’s needs are met and respected. We offer five fundamental services:

Fostering – Our foster carers are passionate about providing caring family homes, supported through education, psychology, specialist training ATIC, involvement in service development and feedback, experienced social work teams and managers providing high levels of support when it’s needed and regular development of skills for the whole family.

Residential – Our homes provide specialist therapeutic care based on our model of attachment and trauma-informed care which is built on a developmental knowledge to create personalised care plans with individual and group therapies. Our teams are trained professionally and receive reflective supervision from their clinical teams and therapists.

Education – All children and young people need to rediscover their innate curiosity to take them into a love of learning. Our schools and teachers provide imaginative and stimulating learning environments. Our own Virtual School Head service provides specialist support for our foster carer families, including their own children and young people when needed.

Assessment & Therapy – Funded through our reinvestment, Five Rivers is leading research in the area of validating assessment tools and devising treatment protocols for children and young people in need. In addition, the teams provide high levels of support to all the adults involved in services, providing supervision, individual work and training. Our community-based assessment services are sought after where making decisions about children’s placements and to support court orders.

Crisis Intervention - Whether it is through a placement that is made because of a crisis or through taking the opportunity in the moment of crisis, Five Rivers has worked to seize this as a potential exponential shift in children’s lives. Supported by the clinical teams and specially trained practitioners, we create environments where change under pressure can be made and made to last.