The Long Term Home
A settled house for children who need somewhere to stay, grow up and come back to. Schools, friendships and Sunday roasts included.
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Therapeutic children's homes · North Kent
A safe place to besimply a child.
Bay Tree House runs small therapeutic homes where young people are known by name, held in mind, and given the time and steadiness to grow.
A home, not a placement
Every child gets a front door, a bedroom and grown-ups who stay.
Our houses sit on ordinary streets in the North Kent area. They look and feel like family homes because that's exactly what they are — with a therapeutic framework quietly holding everything together behind the scenes.
Teams are small and consistent, trained in trauma-informed practice and supported by clinical supervision, so that the adults around a child can stay warm and regulated even on the hardest days.
Trauma-informed
PACE-based practice across every shift
Clinically backed
Reflective supervision for all staff
Education first
School, college and everything after
Our homes
Small houses, shaped around who is living in them.
Step-Down & Transition
A gentler, quieter house for young people moving on from hospital or intensive placements, with pace set by the child.
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A whole house and a whole team for one young person, where the plan is written around them rather than a rota.
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Patient, playful, and never rushed.
Three commitments sit on the first page of every child's plan. They shape how we greet a young person in the morning and how we sit with them at midnight.
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Safety you can feel
Predictable days, familiar faces and adults who stay calm when things are hard. Nothing therapeutic happens before a child feels safe.
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Curiosity, not consequences
We ask what happened to a young person, not what's wrong with them. Behaviour is communication, and we're trained to listen to it.
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Room to be a child
Bikes, birthdays, muddy boots and bedtime stories. Therapy sits quietly in the background of an ordinary, joyful childhood.
A day here
Ordinary hours, done really well.
7:30
Cereal, cartoons and someone plaiting hair before school.
15:45
Home, snack, and ten minutes of nothing before homework.
17:00
Cooking together, the garden, or the treehouse until it's dark.
20:00
Baths, stories, and the same goodnight from the same grown-up.
Referrals & enquiries
Tell us about the young person. We'll tell you honestly if we're the right home.
We only ever say yes to a placement we believe we can hold. Send a referral or ask for our statement of purpose and we'll come back to you quickly.