Aldine House Secure Children’s Centre

 

Aldine House aims to provide a safe, caring yet controlled environment in which young people are enabled to address personal difficulties and so move on to make positive contributions to their family and communities.

 

Our core objective is to enable and encourage emotional, behavioural and attitudinal change

 

We aim to achieve this by working closely with carers and professionals in providing a range of individual educational and life experiences that equip the young person to fulfil their own potential, their communities moral aspirations and societies legal expectations.

Aldine House is a Secure Children’s Centre licensed by the Department of Health to provide care, education and treatment to eight young people who display significant behavioural problems, are awaiting trial or are sentenced by the courts for criminal offences. We are located on the southwest side of Sheffield and are easily accessed by the M1, train and other public transport.

 

Aldine House aims to provide a safe, caring yet controlled environment in which young people are enabled to address personal difficulties and so move on to make positive contributions to their family and communities.

 

The modern building, purpose built with the user in mind, won an architectural award for it’s design.  It is a spacious unit with 8 bedrooms all with en-suite facilities.

 

All young people will commence with a comprehensive assessment process where a care or sentence plan will be compiled. Aldine House is responsible for monitoring and reviewing the programmes and developing a wide variety of evidence based programmes [including the Duke of Edinburgh Awards] to meet the needs of young people. These are broadly based upon a cognitive/behavioural model in line with Youth Justice and ‘What Works’ research regarding effective practice.