Serenity and The Mallows: the two residential settings for girls attached to The Serendipity Centre are warm and welcoming settings for girls who need care between 38 and 52 weeks a year. An experienced staff team keeps active links with the Education, Welfare and Therapy provisions to ensure a wraparound service. Contact with birth families is appropriately supported in a planned and sensitive way.
Serenity accommodates up to 6 girls, each having their own bedroom with an en suite bathroom. The modern home is in a spacious setting on the outskirts of Southampton with 9 acres of grounds, which include paddocks with horses and alpacas. As well as a range of indoor and garden activities, the young people are encouraged to access local community provision for social and leisure activities. Older girls are supported to take on work experience or weekend jobs.
The Mallows accommodates up to 4 girls, again each with their own bedroom. This modern home is warm, containing and well provisioned for play and activity on site. Set in a discrete and quiet cul-de-sac the home is just a couple of miles from Serenity and The Serendipity Centre.
The care provision can offer assessment, targeted development and integrated support helping young people to fulfil their potential as they grow into young adults and take their place in the wider community. From therapeutic play through to independent living skills: staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well being all carry real meaning within Serenity and The Mallows.
“Behaviour management is superb and sensitively carried out”, Ofsted, 2009.