{"id":8245,"date":"2019-04-03T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T12:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/educationandfamilies\/?page_id=8245"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:59:44","slug":"childrens-homes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Devon County Council currently has eight children\u2019s homes across Devon. Our homes can provide short breaks, including day care and overnight stays, as well as full-time residential homes for children and young people with complex healthcare needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All our homes are registered with Ofsted, and are for children and young people up to the age of 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How we can help<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Our homes can provide the following service:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>full time residential homes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>short breaks &#8211; day care and overnight stays<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our aim is to provide a happy, safe and caring home for all children and young people who access our service. All children are supported in a loving encouraging and respectful way and have their views, wishes and feelings heard and responded to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All children and young people who access our service have a tailored support which takes into account their own strengths and challenges. For example, we use a range of communication methods to suit your child individual needs and ability. Children\u2019s needs are at the centre of our practise and we listen and respond to the children\u2019s voice when planning their care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to access our service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We receive referrals on your behalf from your child\u2019s social worker. We will then make contact with you to discuss your child\u2019s needs and we will undertake a \u2018is this the right home\u2019 and admissions process to ensure we have a full understanding of the child\u2019s needs, and if we are able to provide support for your child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Statements of purpose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/barnes-statement-of-purpose\/\">Barnes Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/hillcrest-statement-of-purpose\/\">Hillcrest Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/lyric-house-statement-of-purpose\/\">Lyric House Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/meadowpark-statement-of-purpose\/\">Meadowpark Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/rosalind-house-statement-of-purpose\/\">Rosalind House Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/the-brook-statement-of-purpose\/\">The Brook Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/childrens-social-care\/childrens-homes\/welland-house-statement-of-purpose\/\">Welland House Children&#8217;s Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day care, overnight stays and short breaks for children and young people with complex healthcare needs, learning disabilities, autistic spectrum conditions and additional needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":66557,"parent":64778,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8245","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 18:25:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8245"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72210,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8245\/revisions\/72210"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}