Our Purpose
Auton Residential Children's Homes are part of St Cuthberts Care, a charity
working
for the common good by enabling people to develop to their personal potential.
Welcome to Auton Children's Residential Homes
There are two Auton Children's Residential Homes - Auton Newcastle is a new, purpose-built home in the west end of the city and Auton Darlington a recently modernised and adapted detached house in a quiet residential part of the town.
We offer support to children who have experienced multiple placement breakdowns and need a period of stability; children who are in transition from foster care before a move back to their birth family and children who need a long-term residential placement.
We also provide accommodation and assistance to young people who are in transition from social care to independent living. We feel it is important to make everyone feel welcome when they arrive and throughout their time with us so that they become a valued member of the group.
Our aims in working with the children are to support them in making their own decisions about their lives, and to teach them how to replace negative, often self-destructive behaviour patterns with alternative methods of coping.
We encourage young people at Auton to recognise their own strengths, individuality and potential for development and independence.
Each child or young person has an individual care plan based upon an assessment of both their needs and their strengths and formulated in consultation with social workers and other professionals. The plan is regularly revised as the child develops and progresses.
We promote and safeguard the education and health of young people in our care and provide them with opportunities to engage and interact with other members of the community to develop social skills, independence and self-esteem.
All of the young people in our care have improved significantly during their stay at Auton thanks to our commitment to behaviour management and to providing support in a therapeutic environment.
A major expansion of Auton Newcastle is scheduled for November this year
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