Legacy Childrens Home “A Place to Call Home”
Legacy Children’s Group Ltd is a specialist residential care provider supporting looked-after children with mild to moderate learning disabilities (LD) across the UK. We deliver an integrated model of therapeutic residential care and education, addressing a critical gap in the market for holistic, specialist LD services.
Our homes are intentionally small, nurturing, and therapeutic—designed to help children heal from trauma, develop confidence and skills, and move toward positive, independent futures.
ABOUT US
Legacy Children’s Group Ltd is a family-run organisation dedicated to providing safe, nurturing,trauma-informed homes where children can heal, grow, and build brighter futures. We combine compassion, structure, and evidence-based therapeutic care to support children with complex emotional and behavioural needs. Legacy Children’s Group was founded with a clear purpose, to raise the standard of care for looked-after children in the UK.
We believe children who have experienced trauma deserve more than accommodation— they deserve understanding, stability, and the right support to thrive. Our organisation is built on strong values, professional care standards, and a deep commitment to positive outcomes for children and young people. Our first home, True Vines, launches in Rochester, Kent (202c).
Our Approach
Transforming Lives Through Integrated, Specialist Care
At Legacy Children’s Group, we believe children with learning disabilities who have experienced trauma deserve more than a placement—they deserve a home where they can heal, learn, and thrive. When care and education work together within a nurturing, therapeutic environment, meaningful transformation becomes possible.
Specialist Learning Disability Expertise
We don’t simply accommodate learning disabilities—we work with and celebrate them. Our homes are purpose-built and staffed by professionals trained specifically in mild to moderate learning disabilities, ensuring that every interaction supports each child’s learning style, communication needs, and pace of development.
Trauma-Informed Care at Our Core
Many of the children we support have experienced significant adversity. Our traumainformed approach prioritises emotional safety, consistency, and understanding. We look beyond behaviour to understand underlying needs, responding with empathy, patience, and therapeutic skill.
Integrated Care and Education
Legacy Children’s Group delivers a truly integrated model where care and education operate as one system. By removing fragmented transitions, children experience consistent support across therapeutic sessions, education, daily routines, and relationships—maximising stability and progress.
Personalised Pathways to Independence
Every child receives a bespoke care and development plan shaped around their strengths, challenges, and aspirations. Our support builds resilience, confidence, life skills, and emotional regulation—preparing young people for meaningful and independent adult lives.
Small-Scale, High-Impact Care
With just 3–4 placements per home, we create genuine family-style environments where children are known, valued, and supported as individuals—not numbers.
Healing Through Relationships
Strong relationships are central to healing. Each child is supported by a dedicated key worker who advocates for them, celebrates progress, and provides consistent emotional support—helping rebuild trust, attachment, and belonging.
Evidence-Based and Outcome-Focused
Our practice is grounded in proven therapeutic models including attachment theory, sensory regulation, life story work, and positive behaviour support. Success is measured through improved wellbeing, confidence, learning engagement, and longterm outcomes.
Our Values
- Compassionate
- Specialist
- Trauma-Informed
- Child-Centred
- Nurturing
- Respectful
- Innovative
- Empowering
- Consistent
- Collaborative
- Evidence-Based
- Inclusive
- Resilience-Building
- Therapeutic
- Trustworthy
These values guide every interaction and decision we make.
Key Differentiators
• Integrated care and education model for LD children
• Trauma-informed, therapeutic residential environments
• Phased growth approach prioritising quality before expansion
• Focus on long-term outcomes, stability, and independence
• Holistic support addressing emotional, educational, social, and life skills
development
Our Commitment
Placing a child with Legacy Children’s Group means gaining a committed, collaborative partner. We work closely with social workers, families, and professionals, maintaining transparent communication and shared goals. Our focus is always long-term, meaningful change.
Because at Legacy, we don’t just care for children—we believe in them.
The Heart & Purpose of Our Home &
Community.
Expert Care From People Who Truly Understand
Exceptional care begins with exceptional people. Our team are passionate specialists dedicated to supporting children with learning disabilities who have experienced trauma.
LD Specialists, Not Generalists
Our staff bring deep expertise in learning disability care. We don’t adapt mainstream approaches—we apply specialist LD knowledge across communication, routines, emotional regulation, and relationship-building.
Therapeutic Expertise in Practice
Staff are trained in Attachment-Based Practice, DDP, Life Story Work, Sensory Integration Therapy, and more—bringing therapeutic intent into everyday moments.
Trauma-Informed and Compassionate
Our team approach behaviour with curiosity and empathy, always asking “what has happened to this child?” rather than “what’s wrong?”
Consistency and
Stability
We invest heavily in staff retention through training, reflective supervision, and supportive leadership—ensuring children experience stable, trusting relationships.
Leadership and
Governance
Our leadership team brings decades of experience in residential care, LD services, and therapeutic practice. Our Registered Manager holds a Level 5 qualification and has a strong track record of achieving Good and Outstanding Ofsted outcomes.
Meet the Team
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Mission Statement
To transform the lives of looked-after children with learning disabilities through compassionate, trauma-informed care and integrated educational support— enabling healing, resilience, and lifelong potential.
Our Vision
A Future Where Every LD Child Can Thrive
We envision a future where every looked-after child with learning disabilities has access to specialist, integrated care and education—where trauma does not define their future.
We envision homes, not placements. Seamless care and education. Genuine healing and growth. Children leaving our care as confident young people with the skills, resilience, and belief to pursue fulfilling lives.
We aspire to set the standard for integrated LD care in the UK—not through size, but through quality, innovation, and outcomes.
The future we envision starts here, with Legacy Children’s Group.
Specialist residential care for looked-after children with mild to moderate learning
disabilities, integrating trauma-informed care and education.
Children and young people aged [insert age range].
3–4 placements to ensure personalised, family-style care.
Children who benefit from adapted communication, structured routines, and specialist
LD support to develop independence
Yes. We deliver integrated care and education, initially through trusted alternative
provision partners, with plans for on-site provision.
Care that understands behaviour as communication rooted in past experiences,
responding with compassion and skill rather than punishment.
Attachment-Based Practice, DDP, Life Story Work, Sensory Integration, PBS, Theraplay,
Social Stories, Emotion Coaching, adapted CBT, and TCI.
Relevant Level 3–5 Residential Childcare qualifications, LD specialisms, safeguarding,
and therapeutic training.
Through accessible communication, keywork sessions, care planning, house meetings,
and advocacy.
Yes, where safe and appropriate, in line with care plans.
Structured yet flexible routines combining education, therapy, life skills, leisure, and
calming evenings.
Using Positive Behaviour Support, de-escalation, emotional co-regulation, and
therapeutic learning.
Through detailed transition planning, pre-visits, welcome materials, key worker
allocation, and enhanced early support.
Placement stability, wellbeing, education progress, life skills, transitions, and child
feedback.
Contact us at [info@legacychildrensgroup.com] to discuss referrals and arrange a
visit.
Contact Us
We’d love to hear from you.
Whether you’re a local authority, professional partner, family member, or simply want to learn more about Legacy Children’s Group, our team is here to help.
Email Address
info@legacychildrensgroup.com