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Greenacres is located in a picturesque dwelling set in six acres of rural countryside. The home provides accommodation and support to five children between the ages of 9-16 years with learning disabilities, autism and or associated challenging needs.
Our experienced staff team aim to offer childcare that is nurturing, holistic and which offers stimulating life opportunities. We promote a working ethos that reinforces healthy emotional and social development founded on mutual respect and relationship building.
The team at Greenacres are committed to delivering care which reflects recent changes to the Children’s Act that values rights, individual identity and cultural diversity by ensuring the staff team work within the guidelines of “ Care Matters “ framework and also the five outcomes set within “ Every Child Matters”.
Regard Policies and procedures underpin the new National Minimal Standards for children’s services.
The Property
The home environment is set out to promote inclusion with large communal lounge and dining area but also accommodates opportunity for quieter chill out activity time, within the smaller TV lounge and sensory/ play room.
All bedrooms are double and decorated or adapted to individual taste and requirements.
The extensive grounds enable participation in a vast array of opportunities from play, to learning by being involved in the growing vegetables in the vegetable patch and interaction with the Shetland ponies (which are soon to be introduced).
The service is located close to Uckfield town centre and within easy travelling distance of Brighton, Eastbourne and Tunbridge Wells. We fully utilise all amenities within the community such as swimming, cinema, beach, parks, zoo, and horse riding. The children attend schools based in Brighton, Eastbourne, Crowborough and Bexhill
The Service
Our overall aim is to enable children to live meaningful, fun lives filled with creative opportunities for learning and fulfillment, whilst at the same time protecting children from harm.
Here at Greenacres we specalise in supporting children with autism. We fully advocate inclusion for people with autism and are proactively working towards principles within the new Autism Bill.
All support is structured on an individual basis with much emphasis based on communication, understanding and participation. The PECS communication system is widely used within the service and where required individual methods of communication are encouraged e.g. communication passports, electronic story books, pictorial charts, pictorial and audio menus/ recipe books and many other visual sensory stimulated opportunities.
Effective communication between school, family and other professionals is vital when supporting children with autism. We have effective and robust recording systems in place to promote communication, provide consistency to each child and ensure any change is implemented with minimal disruption, thus reducing anxiety and minimising behaviors.
We work in partnership with families and encourage feedback via attendance at regular parent forum meetings. We have built good working relationships with local social work teams and community health care teams. We support children to access speech and language therapy, art therapy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, CAMHS, FISS.
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Details
Regional Director: Daun Tattersall Telephone: 07913391202 Email: Daun.Tattersall@regard.co.uk
Customer Relations Manager: Michelle Rumble
Service Manager: Mark Davies Email: greenacres@regard.co.uk
Locality Manager: Robert May |
