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…

Three pupils at Elland House School have completed their NICAS Level 1 Indoor Climbing Award

Pupils at Elland House School have contributed items to ‘Operation Shoebox 2013’ – providing a box of Christmas goodies for a member of the Armed Forces serving in Afghanistan – and written letters and cards of support

News in Education! We are pleased to announce; COPE has been introduced into Timeout, starting at Elland House School. The Certificate of Personal Effectiveness is a nationally recognised qualification outcome of the ASDAN programmes. The qualifications offer imaginative ways of accrediting young people’s activities. They promote, and allow centres to record, a wide range of…