- Children’s Home.
- 52 Week placements
- 7-17
- Mixed boys and girls
- SEMH, Autism, Specific Learning Difficulties
- Therapeutic - Kedleston Group specialist children’s homes use the PACE approach to support the learning and social and emotional wellbeing of the children and young people.
- Our Stepping into Family Living Framework provides a structured and supported way for children to move back to family living as quickly as possible and thrive.
High Peak House creates a safe and caring environment, where we provide opportunities for children and young people to achieve to the best of their ability. Our home provides care, guidance, support and promotes education and health, which in turn promotes the importance of decision making and taking ownership of those decisions. Through the use of a nurturing, paceful, supportive and consistent approach, children, and young people are supported to address their feelings and emotions in a safe and manageable way.
High Peak House offers residential placements for children and young people with complex needs, and young people who are entering into young adulthood. Some of our children and young people need support to manage their behaviours and keep themselves safe. We support the children and young people to achieve their full potential, step down into foster care, or a safe return home, and help prepare them for independent living and further education, training, or work.
We aim to create a nurturing, paceful, family environment which encourages strong bonds between staff, children, and young people, and creates a setting where improving self-esteem and self-worth is a focus in all the work we do. We strongly believe that children and young people should be supported and encouraged to achieve their ambitions, and in order to do so, building self-esteem must be a priority. Our intention is that each child and young person will achieve positive outcomes through accessing appropriate education and having their own individual plan which includes objectives and targets for areas including identity, health and wellbeing, self-care, family and positive relationships, life skills, new experiences as well as through being able to thrive, develop and grow in the paceful, supportive and therapeutic environment that High Peak House provides. This plan is monitored, reviewed, and revised on a regular basis. High Peak House works closely with all relevant stakeholders to ensure a consistent multi-agency approach.
It is our belief that all children and young people have the right to access and participate in education, to be kept safe from harm and exploitation and to be given the opportunity to participate, achieve success and recognition. To this end, we also provide each child and young person entrusted to our care, with an individualised care and behaviour support plan as well as a Missing from Care protocol, where applicable they will also have individualised Self Harm care plans and independent risk assessments.
Each personalised plan in place (inclusive of access to specialist services) sets out agreed outcomes for the child/young person.
The fractured family life and disrupted education that many of our children and young people have experienced, damages their confidence, trust and self-worth leaving them vulnerable to a cycle of trauma, failure, and exploitation. Therefore, our objective is to provide a safe and secure environment that replicates, wherever possible, the feeling of belonging and being valued by a family/community.
Many children and young people in the past have displayed challenging behaviours or behaviours of concern when they have been unable to manage their thoughts and feelings. However, the paceful and supportive environment we create empowers children and young people to recognise and learn to positively deal with their feelings and fears along with the understanding of rights and responsibilities. We ensure that any challenging behaviour or behaviour of concern is managed in a supportive and professional way, enabling the child to put things right and rebuild and return to their positive relationships as soon as possible. By adopting a good ‘therapeutic parenting’ approach and providing consistent and fair boundaries, we enable the young people in our care to move forward, achieve their goals and prepare them for the future.