Our vision is that our therapeutic parenting model of care and the skilled,

multidisciplinary, and dedicated group of professionals who deliver the work daily

provide the best opportunity for the children in our care to recover and rebuild their

lives.

Bayleaf Care to be a leading childcare provider in the education and therapeutic care

of children and young people.

To contribute to advancing education, training, research, and specialist therapeutic

services for children and young people who have experienced trauma.

Bayleaf Care is a non-government-maintained child-care organisation whose primary

goal is to provide treatment and therapeutic care to children and young people aged

five to sixteen who have been referred by local placing authorities from all over the

United Kingdom.

We aim to re-integrate children and young people who have experienced severe

trauma due to early environmental failure back into mainstream families, schools,

and society.

Our in-house therapy team supports our residential therapeutic practitioners.

Guidance is provided through case management, group supervision, and

mentalisation. This ensures that children receive a ‘wrap-around service’ that

proffers a nurturing and ‘loving’ environment and uses the most effective strategies

to attend positively to presenting behaviours.

The role of the key worker is important as he/she will meet regularly with the child to

develop ways and ideas to help the child manage his/her feelings and anxieties

appropriately.

We recognise the pivotal role that residential support workers play in the lives of our

young children. Our work with children is more than a career; it is a vocation that

supports our children and young people in developing relationships and a sense of

self from which they can develop and grow.

We believe that our therapeutic parenting model of care and the skilled,

multidisciplinary, and dedicated group of professionals who deliver the work daily

provide the children placed in our care the best opportunity to recover and rebuild

their lives.

We value and promote a PACE approach to all aspects of our work, specifically:

• A belief in the value of reflecting on experience and learning through reflection

and understanding.

• A belief and a preparedness to understand the meaning of behaviour and to

view behaviour as a form of communication.

• A belief like the dynamic interplay between the individual and the group and

how this affects relationships.

• We are committed to the investment in staff members through training,

consultation, supervision, and professional development.

• A belief that our therapeutic approach does not view any individual through

the lens of prejudice or punitive outcomes and enables children and young

people to express their unspoken thoughts, anxieties, and emotions.

• We believe in promoting diversity. All individuals will receive support,

irrespective of personal characteristics, and equitable assistance will be

provided in an atmosphere independent of prejudice of any kind.

• We are committed to recognising a diverse workforce that enables us to

provide a high standard of nurture and care to persons from backgrounds

stemming from childhood trauma. Bayleaf Care employees will have equitable

opportunities, and every contribution will be valued irrespective of race,

gender, gender identity, nationality, r9eligion, creed, sexual orientation, marital

status, or disability.