Types of placements

• Emergency placements
• Short-term placements
• Medium-term placements
• Solo placements for children who may benefit from a longer placement before stepping down.

Libertas was created out of a desire to make a difference to young people’s’ lives. We provide the highest levels of care for children and young people aged between 7-17 years with autism, learning difficulties, and/or associated challenging behaviours.

We work in partnership with local authorities to achieve positive outcomes for the young people who are placed in our care, and to enable them to acquire the practical life skills they need to live as independently as able.

We adopt a holistic approach to providing positive outcomes, with individually tailored support plans and outcome-based goals for each young person.

We aim provide a calm and therapeutic environment that feels nurturing, and in which young people feel safe and secure. This helps to facilitate an atmosphere of calm in which they are then able to develop and thrive.

It is our belief that every young person has the right to be treated as an individual with their needs being met in an environment that offers the correct balance between care and control, with a high degree of stability and consistency.

Our residential children’s homes are registered to care for children aged 7-17 years, offering 52 weeks a year residential care.

All of our residential children’s homes are registered to care for

Our residential children’s homes aim to:

• Provide a style of care and support that minimises institutional
• Provide a style of care and support that minimises institutional aspects of substitute living environments.
• Provide a therapeutic approach within the home that supports the young people to address issues from their past, which debilitate them from coping.
• Ensure that young people fully participate in their care and educational programmes.
• Provide a child centred approach which provides continuity of care and supports young people in achieving positive outcomes.
• Provide for the educational needs of young people through attendance at a mainstream school, or an identified registered specialist educational provision as soon as possible after placement within the local area determined by a Personal Education Plan, and in partnership with support agencies.
• Help prepare young people to integrate into a family environment or forwarding placement, and to help equip them with the practical, emotional, and socially acceptable skills required for successful living within the community either within a family environment or independent living.

Our homes have all been adapted to create homely and nurturing environments which provide ideal settings for the care of children and young people with autism, learning difficulties, and/or associated challenging behaviours. The homes provide a model of care based upon positive parenting and unconditional positive regard, where mutually trusting relationships can develop within a framework of fair, consistent and socially acceptable boundaries.

They are all located in and around London and the Southeast, providing spacious, fully modernised accommodation with generous grounds for the children and young people to learn and play.

Our Senior Leadership Team is comprised of experienced individuals from a range of professional backgrounds, who all work collectively to deliver the strategic goals and vision of Libertas GBR Limited.  

Our Team

LIBERSTAS GBR Ltd employ a team of Support Workers and other professionals who support our young people to develop the practical and emotional skills required to live independently and reach their full potential. We pride ourselves on having created a unique ethos which is practised throughout our organisation, and which forms the basis for our person specification qualities. These are warmth, genuineness, integrity, honesty, commitment, experience, knowledge, compassion, the ability to celebrate diversity, humour, empathy and respect for others.