Bromley Lodge
- Registered: 2001
- Registered Places: 2
- DfE Education: Yes
- Assessment/Therapy: Yes
- Step Down Placements: Yes
- Staff Ratio: 1:1
Bromley Lodge - An 'Outstanding' Children's Home
"Staff provide warm and consistent support to children. This creates a sense of stability and safety. As a result, children become more confident and make strong progress from very difficult starting points. Children who have experienced huge instability in their early years have found a loving home and formed deep and trusting relationships with staff.
Staff help children understand their feelings and manage them day to day. This support
builds children’s confidence and independence. Children who once avoided and
distrusted adults now engage openly and feel secure. Children talk with pride about their
achievements and progress.
Staff use clear routines and simple boundaries to help children manage their behaviours.
This helps children feel more settled and reduces moments of crisis. Staff have stuck by
children through some difficult times, providing excellent support and guidance to help
them get back on their feet.
Staff work carefully with families to balance hopes for the future with each child’s need
for stability. This shared planning ensures that decisions move at a safe pace. As a
result, children are protected from sudden changes and experience steady, safe
progress.
Staff maintain strong links with education providers and notice small changes in
children’s emotions or behaviours. For one child, this close attention has helped them
return to learning at a pace that feels manageable. The child’s attendance has improved,
and they receive frequent positive praise and achievement awards from the school.
Staff encourage children to participate in new experiences and build practical life skills.
This includes activities in the community, support with daily tasks, and guidance about
personal safety. These actions help children build confidence, develop new interests and
prepare for future independence.
Staff create a warm, safe and well‑maintained home environment. Personalised
bedrooms and inviting shared spaces help children feel valued and comfortable. Regular
improvements, including outdoor play areas, give children more chances to explore, play
and enjoy sensory and physical activities. This consistent attention to the environment
enhances children’s daily experiences and strengthens their emotional wellbeing."
Ofsted Inspection - January 2026 - Full report available by request
Residential Care
Bromley Lodge provides a nurturing, and safe environment for children on the Autistic Spectrum and / or those who present with mild to severe Emotional, Behavioural and Communication difficulties. The staff team are provided with a high level of training to specialise the care we provide the children within the home.
The home provides an environment, specialised to meet the needs of the young people and is set up to adequately support them to develop at a pace they are comfortable with. The staff team provide the children with a secure base in which they can build the foundation of trusting relationships, this will also allow them to process the emotional and behavioural difficulties that have arisen from past trauma.
The staff team will provide a consistent and structured daily routine, using methods of communication that the children are familiar with. Staff provide the young people with a wide range of activities, that allow them to explore socials situations with other similar age and disability young people, as they build confidence they will be able to access a wider range of activities that they feel comfortable with. They environment is set up to meet sensory needs. This can be easily adopted to meet high or low arousal need as each child is unique and will require their individual needs met.
The overall ethos of Bromley Lodge is to ensure the children are provided with a warm and nurturing environment which provides more specialised care to meet the complex needs of the individual child. This will allow the young people to develop trusting relationships with the adults in the home which will support them to progress to their full potential with support from a staff team that fully understands how to meet their needs. The staff team will also work closely with families where appropriate, in order to build positive working relationships to provide the children with consistent care.
Education
The home is directly affiliated to both our DfE registered, specialist SEMH schools: The Davenport Primary School and The Old Priory Secondary School.
The respective school and the home work in close partnership to ensure continuity in respect of learning support, achieving developmental goals and behaviour management.
The Davenport School (Key Stage 2: 7-11yrs) offers a differentiated curriculum in order to meet the individual learning needs of each young person. The school operates with small group settings where children are closely supported and supervised by a qualified teacher and learning support assistants.
The Old Priory School (Key Stages 3 & 4: 11 – 16yrs) offers the national curriculum allowing for GCSE study in essential subject areas, alongside alternative, differentiated curriculums, including ASDAN and City & Guilds NPTC vocational awards, both of which lead to nationally recognised qualifications.
Assessment & Therapy
Children and young people residing in our care have access to a range of assessment and therapy services including:
- Psychological Assessment
- Psychotherapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Equine Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Play Therapy
All therapy referrals are overseen by the organisation’s dedicated Therapy Services Manager in consultation with the allocated social worker and other key stakeholders as appropriate.
Our assessment and therapy services are an inclusive element of our residential care provision and attract no additional funding requirement.
Health Support
In addition to our therapy services and panel of consultants, each of our homes have direct access to a health promotions worker and, in the event of any significant health concerns arising, oversight from a registered, dual diagnosis nurse. This ensures effective, professional guidance in respect of health profiling, together with the immediate and ongoing health needs of each individual child and young person placed in our care.
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