Llee House
- Registered: 2001
- Registered Places: 3
- DfE Education: Yes
- Assessment/Therapy: Yes
- Step Down Placements: Yes
- Staff Ratio: 2:3
Llee House - An 'Outstanding' Children's Home
"Since the last inspection, one child has remained living in the home and is making excellent progress. The child lives in a well-maintained and child-focused home that is personalised to their tastes. Staff have creatively remodelled one of the rooms in the home to create a dedicated space for the child to play football. This demonstrates staff’s commitment to the child and the importance they place on promoting the child’s interests.
The child says they feel loved. The relationships between staff and the child are
consistent and stable, ensuring excellent continuity of care. Staff make every effort to
involve the child in group activities, such as youth group and football club, to help reduce
social isolation. Staff also participate in a fantasy football competition with the child, who
is encouraged to make presentations at monthly award ceremonies for the winners. This
helps to increase the child’s confidence.
The child has made progress in many areas of their life and staff have helped them to
explore the activities that they most enjoy. For example, the child’s talent for drama is
promoted at theatre school. The child takes part in regular work experience and has
earned certificates in recognition of their achievements. These experiences have further
built their self-esteem and helped them to develop their identity.
The child’s views, wishes and feelings are treated with the utmost importance by staff.
Staff place emphasis on creating an open, warm and inclusive culture where the child
feels listened to. Regular house meetings take place where their views are gathered in
relation to holidays, trips and themed nights.
Culture is celebrated and the child takes part in monthly themed culture nights. The child
is supported to create menus and cook food from different cultures. This helps them to
develop a broader understanding of the world.
Staff are imaginative in their approach to preparing the child for adulthood. They have
created a bespoke plan which includes helping the child to travel independently and do
household tasks. The child has also been helped to create a CV for employment and has
received help with managing finances. As a result, the child is now able to save money
and recently contributed to purchasing a new phone with their savings"
Ofsted Inspection - January 2026 - Full report available by request
Residential Care
Llee House offers and provides care for children who have emotional, behavioural and mild learning difficulties.
Since early 2014, the home has worked predominantly with younger children with an emphasis on providing a wraparound care that normally includes transitional plans for the children to return home or to move on to longer term fostering environment. In order for outcomes to be successful, staff within our home understand the importance of establishing trusting and respectful relationships, forming a foundation for the young people to move forward. Creating this environment also allows for the young people to explore past experiences and outlining their own understanding of the reasons that they are “children looked after.”
Llee House also welcomes the advice and support of outside professionals in order to support the young people within the home and ultimately assist in positive outcomes which will impact on the young people’s future.
The home aims to provide a caring, nurturing “family” environment. The staff team provide a parental approach to the children with rules and expectations similar to that of a traditional family home. The foundations are established by offering support and encouragement and by working towards developing sound and valuable relationships between the staff members and the young people and enables us to address and meet the young people’s primary/basic needs. This allows for the young people to develop, achieve, feel safe and secure and ultimately flourish.
Creating healthy and positive relationships with the young people allows them to feel supported when expressing their emotions and also gives them the opportunity to understand their own experiences and emotions. The management and staff members understand that all behaviours are a form of communication and that it reflects the thoughts, feelings and needs of our young people. When presenting certain behaviours, relationships between staff and young people will have to be such that the young people will continue to feel safe and cared for irrespective of presenting situations, in addition the relationships between us all also assist in the understanding of how to process and express themselves in a more positive and socially accepted manner.
Achievements for children will be as individual and diverse as their own personalities. Every child placed has different starting points from which to progress and develop within the home. For some children, progression into a fostering environment may be a possible goal, for others a successful transition back to the family environment may be possible and for some older children, preparation planning and transition into independent accommodation may be a realistic achievement and success. Our ultimate goal is that for the time the children/young people remain at Llee House their childhood is a positive experience, that they are happy, safe and have secure childhood in order to be able to maximize their potential and move forward with confidence to determine their own future.
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.
Statement of Purpose
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