In just four years, Hull City Council has almost tripled its portfolio of residential children’s homes as part of a commitment to keep vulnerable children and young people in the city.
In 2019, the council had just four homes for young people with emotional behavioural difficulties (EBD) and two homes for those with disabilities.
By the end of 2023, Hull will have opened its 16th home – 13 of which offer EBD provision and three that can accommodate disabled children and young people.
“We recognised we needed to focus on making our group homes smaller,” says Mike Boddy, the council’s group manager for children’s homes. “We could see that six-bed homes just weren’t getting the outcomes that we wanted for children and young people.”
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