We have been working with the Centre for Social Justice over the past twelve months to assist them in the research for the 12 by 24 paper. This paper’s purpose is to double the number of care leavers successfully getting through higher education from 6% to 12% by 2024. At present you have more chance…

The festive winter season is well underway at Timeout Children’s Homes with lots of events for children and staff alike. This is just a taste of the events the young people are enjoying this year. We would like to wish everyone a peaceful winter season and the very best of wishes for 2018. Christmas Card…

Autumn 2017 saw the first ever Timeout Awards Ceremony for staff. Our employees are an incredible asset, and work tirelessly to improve the lives of the looked after children and young people in our residential children’s care, so we wanted to say “thank you”. There were awards to suit every role and aptitude, and everyone…

Children and staff have enjoyed a busy, enjoyable and productive Autumn at Timeout Children’s Homes, with a range of events in both the schools and the homes. This is just a small selection of the activities that our children and young people have taken part in over the Autumn months. New school year for our…

What an amazing day! Staff from our residential homes and from head office worked hard to set up a happy, fun-filled arena for our residents. And after a rather rainy and dull morning, we even had the sun appear for the actual event. Stalls included a messy play area (it was truly messy!), a book…

Kapital visits Timeout Children’s Homes Kapital, the UK and international musical recording artist and rapper, recently visited Timeout Children’s Homes. All the children from our Riverbank and Elland House came together at head office for the event. He inspired the audience by talking about how everyone can turn around a difficult life, and the importance…

It has been an exciting year in Timeout Schools. Both schools are now graded by Ofsted as ‘Good’ with some outstanding features. This is a great achievement for our small schools as we are graded under the Common Inspection Framework, which applies to all the schools in England and the Independent School Standards, which apply…

We are so proud of the school, the staff and the wonderful children, who were described as outstanding! We get a double whammy with inspections, as an independent school we need to meet ALL the independent school standards and then the DFe Ofsted framework is applied – so this is a fantastic result! Here are…

Children & Young People Now, a magazine dedicated to professionals working with children, young people and families have reported about one of our homes. One of our West Yorkshire based homes has been rated ‘Outstanding’ in a recent Ofsted inspection. The homes Manager, Chen Dunn gave her comments to the article. To read the article,…

It is no longer a question of whether a therapeutic residential child trauma provision has a model, but rather what is the model and how does it permeate through the organisation to maximise its potential for children, the staff and the whole. A model can say a lot more about its organisation than its ‘practice…