Goals: To provide education and care as a way of building children's resilience
Funding: Some from the Government, the remainder through fees from local authority placements
Contact: 01303 815 662, www.caldecottfoundation.co.uk
The Caldecott Foundation has had a long and distinguished history since it was formed in 1911 by Leila Rendel in St Pancras as a nursery school for babies in London.
Over the years it has added new services for vulnerable children, culminating last November in the opening of Pine Lodge, which is an assessment centre for children who are subject to court proceedings or have been referred by local authorities for urgent care.
Registered to take up to eight children aged eight to 18 at any one time, placements typically last for three or six months, although these are "reviewable and renewable", according to Clive Lee, chief executive of the foundation since April 2004. He says some of the children cared for by the centre have had "multiple placement breakdowns" because they are extremely disturbed.
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