Cholmondeley Services

Respite Care
Cholmondeley provides quality respite care for children aged 3-12 years old. Our staff are passionate and professional, enabling children to feel safe and secure in a structured and fun environment.  Respite children attend a school programme daily.  Pre-school children attend Governors Bay pre-school.   On weekends and school holidays we have lots of fun activities planned for the children e.g. swimming or visits to local parks.

Outreach
The Outreach Services Team at Cholmondeley provides a range of social work and psychological services to children and their families This service aims to assist parents and caregivers to meet their child’s needs by offering support, education, advice, information, assessment and intervention through the following: Home based Social Work, Home based Psychology, Parents Support Group, Foster Care and Residential Parenting.

We welcome referrals directly from agencies, professionals, parents and caregivers.

Residential Parenting Programme
In addition we offer a residential programme where parents can build on their existing skills whilst having the opportunity to learn and practice new ways of interacting with their child in a safe and supportive environment.

Supported Foster Care Service
Cholmondeley Supported Foster Care Service provides children who are living in out-of -home care with high quality placements and related services to support them to reach their full potential. The service is designed to meet the needs of a wide range of children. Intensive twenty four hour a day support is provided to foster carers and children through the highly skilled multi-disciplinary team of professionals at Cholmondeley and locally based resources.

Psychology
Cholmondeley has a full time psychologist whose primary role is to advise on best practice in supporting children in out-of-home care, as well as to work within Cholmondeley's  multidisciplinary team, to ensure the support needs of children who are transitioning from Cholmondeley into a permanent placement are being met.

Cholmondeley also provides psychological services for children and families which can be contracted by other agencies.

Transition to Permanency
Cholmondeley provides short to medium placements for children who are under the care of Child Youth and Family awaiting and transitioning into a permanent placement.  Cholmondeley has a multi disciplinary team who provide a wrap around service for those children in our care.