About – Three Counties Children’s Services

Preparing your experience

Every Child Deserves To Feel Safe, Heard, And Valued

Three Counties Children's Services provides small, nurturing residential homes where children and young people can rebuild trust, experience stability, and begin to shape a future that feels hopeful again.

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Listening, planning, and acting together

Built around the individual child, not the other way around.

Three Counties Children's Services was founded on a simple belief: every child deserves to feel safe, heard, and valued. We provide small, nurturing residential homes in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire where children and young people can rebuild trust, experience stability, and begin to shape a future that feels hopeful again.

Our team is made up of calm, patient, and resilient adults who understand the impact of trauma and the importance of relationships. We don't expect children to fit into a service - we shape our service around the individual child.

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Curiosity, Compassion, And Consistency

Children arrive with their own stories, strengths, and struggles. We respond with curiosity, compassion, and consistency.

Safety First

Emotional, physical, and relational safety comes first.

Predictability Over Pressure

Routines that build trust rather than control.

Connection Before Correction

Behaviour is communication, and we listen.

Choice And Voice

Young people have genuine influence in their daily lives.

Healing In Relationships

Positive, stable adults walking alongside each child.

We work closely with therapeutic partners, social workers, families, and education providers to ensure each child's needs are understood and supported in a joined-up way.

Wraparound Support For Every Child

Individualised Care Plans

Every child has a personal plan shaped around their experiences, strengths, hopes, and therapeutic needs. Goals are realistic, flexible, and built in partnership with the young person.

Therapeutic Support

Our staff are trained in trauma-informed practice, restorative approaches, and relationship-based care. External therapeutic professionals work alongside us to help make sense of trauma and support emotional wellbeing.

Education & Learning

We advocate strongly for meaningful, stable education - whether in mainstream school, specialist provision, or through personalised learning pathways. We celebrate progress in all its forms, not just academics.

Life Skills & Independence

From cooking and budgeting to social skills and self-care, we help young people grow in confidence and prepare for adulthood at a pace that feels right for them.

Family & Community Connections

Where safe and appropriate, we help children maintain or rebuild important relationships. Community involvement is encouraged so young people feel included, not isolated.

What We Promise Every Child

Seeing the child, not the label.

Responding to distress with understanding, not judgement.

Encouraging strengths rather than focusing on mistakes.

Providing stability, even when life feels chaotic.

Offering opportunities, choices, and second chances.

Staying consistent - especially when things are difficult.

We want every young person who comes through our doors to leave knowing they are capable, worthy, and cared for.

More Than Professionals - Safe Adults Who Care.

Our staff are more than professionals - they are safe adults who show patience, empathy, and genuine care. Everyone receives ongoing training in trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, safeguarding, and de-escalation.

But more importantly, our team brings warmth, humour, and humanity to the work.

Trauma Attachment Neurodiversity Safeguarding
"We believe healing begins when a young person realises they don't have to face things alone."
Care staff in team meeting
A connected and well-supported team