Linkway House Children's Home.
Linkway House opened as a residential service for children with learning disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorders in July 2000. We pride ourselves on our committed and dedicated staff teams, We have an excellent staff retention record. Linkway House Limited is committed to ongoing training and development of all our staff members. We are committed to ensuring that all staff undertake NVQ3 in caring for children and young people, 80% of our staff have completed this and the other 20% are currently enrolled to complete the course. All new staff receive a thorough induction training period, and complete all mandatory training courses, eg; Fire Health and Safety, Child Protection, Food Hygiene, First aid. Physical intervention training and de-escalation techniques. Due to some of our children experiencing difficulties in the area of communication we also provide training for staff in the use of Makaton sign and use of PECS. We pride ourselves on ensuring that all our staff receive regular supervisions and annual appraisals to enable them to identify further training and development beneficial to their role and responsibilities.Click on the images below to see Virtual Tours of a typical Bedroom and our spacious Lounge at Linkway House: (Note: via a dial-up connection these 'movies' may take up to 30 seconds to load)
Linkway House is a large detached property set in an urban area and is within 5 minutes walking distance from Burnley town centre, with easy access to major motorways from Burnley to anywhere in the country.
Traditionally built of stone the home, it was once an old public house building, and has a purpose built school on the grounds that has now gained registration with the Department of Education.
Linkway House is a five bedded residential property offering excellent facilities. These include large double bedroom accommodation that are all furnished and decorated to a high standard. Each young person has his / her own bedroom which they can personalise to their own tastes. There are also ample bath, shower and toilet facilities.
Linkway House offers a large TV lounge which provides video, free view T.V and DVD services. Adjoining this is a large communal dinning room, used also for group activities.
All our young people are encouraged to follow a healthy eating programme, although we do take into account the sensory difficulties, some of our children experience in this area, and support these wherever possible . Special diets for medical, religious or cultural reasons can be catered for. Gluten -free and casein free diets are catered for when medical opinion deems it advantageous to the child. All meals are cooked on the premises and most are eaten in the dining room in family groups with care staff. All pupils are encouraged to involved with meal preparation , supporting our emphasis on developing independence skills. Our menus are changed seasonally, and we endeavour to ensure that they are the healthiest options available.
Linkway House offers a well equipped light sensory room used to relax and improve behaviour management.
The enclosed spacious garden area offers a new specially designed adventure play area and a large outdoor trampoline and barbeque facilities.
Our own vehicles, a 14 seat minibus and car enable the young people to access many educational and community based activities. This also allows us to offer a transport service with qualified staff to return the young people home to their parents for a visit.
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Linkway House, 25 Clifton Street, Burnley, Lancs, BB12 0QZ. Tel: (01282) 831649. Fax: (01282) 831649.