About the Corner House

Aims and Objectives of the Home

The Corner House offers fully self–contained accommodation for up to seven families. The purpose of the home is to provide a safe and nurturing environment, through tailored, robust assessments. The welfare of the child is paramount and we provide realistic thorough assessments to help prevent delay. The aim is for realistic parenting work and evidence based assessments in a time frame which avoids harmful delay and prevents family breakdown.

• The Corner House aims to provide a structured, safe environment where we hope parents are able to recognise a child’s needs and can build on their own parenting skills.
• The main aim of the home is to ensure that children are safe and protected. To devise and implement work programmes to address the parents' needs and parenting issues.
• To provide a safe, structured and enabling environment which is conducive to parents effecting the necessary changes to ensure positive parenting.

Ethos and Philosophy

At the Corner House we aim to work in partnership with families and involved professionals in order to prevent family breakdown and to protect children and keep them safe at all times. We respect individuals according to their life experiences, religious, cultural and spiritual beliefs and their right to confidentiality and privacy. We believe that children and families have the right to feel safe and secure and to have all their needs met to a high standard.

We will assess, support and encourage families in line with the Five Outcomes of Every Child Matters, treating children and their families with care, attention and dignity at all times. We will aim for all family members to feel "heard", using a caring and genuine approach. Staff will present positive role models to reinforce positive parenting and socially acceptable behaviour. We are committed to providing a caring and high quality service, which will be regularly monitored and reviewed.