We provide high quality, specialist secure accommodation for young people between the ages of 11 and 17.
Our Centre offers 42 places for young people offering; integrated assessment, intervention, education, accommodation and leaving care facilities. The Centre comprises a fully secured environment with four homes accommodating eight young people, a specialist needs unit with integrated medical/detoxification facilities and two leaving care homes each accommodating two young people.
We provide exceptionally high quality individual care in a purpose designed environment, ensuring all aspects of the young people’s needs are addressed. We provide the best possible care, education, health services and interventions to help young people to reach a point in their lives when they can successfully return to their families or enter independent living.
Young people leaving Aycliffe Secure Centre will have improved opportunities to be better able to reintegrate with their families, engage in education training or employment and engage with the community in a pro-social manner following a planned reintegration programme.
We offer an exceptionally high quality, caring environment for children and young people requiring
specialist assessment and intervention:
- purpose designed new building
- state-of-the-art learning centre
- individualised educational programmes
- full nursing health provision
- young people’s involvement in all decisions
- Centre of Excellence for mental and emotional wellbeing
- Individual Behaviour for Life (B4L) rewards programmes
- young people’s achievements celebrated by all
- The Respect Agenda at the heart of everything
- safeguarding embedded in all practice
- extensive range of intervention programmes
- multi-disciplinary integrated staffing
We achieve this by adding value to all that the Centre has to offer. See our Adding value to the new centre page for more detailed information.
The Centre is able to offer intensive input for those requiring higher levels of emotional or physical care and detoxification. Our substance misuse and mental health teams work in a multidisciplinary manner with community teams and other professionals ensuring a smooth and safe transition back into the community on completion of their care or sentence plan with full after care resettlement planning.
Our Newsletters
Options Newsletter January 2011.pdf (4 pages, 362kb)
Options Winter 2009 Volume 15.pdf (5 pages, 1810kb)
Options Summer 2009 Volume 14.pdf (5 pages, 2075kb)
Options Autumn 2008 Volume 13.pdf (5 pages, 2505kb)
