SME News Midlands Enterprise Awards 2025/ 38 AIM-Jun25049 Most Innovative Children's Therapeutic Care Provider 2025 Bayleaf Care is a Staffordshire-based provider of therapeutic residential care and education for children and young people across the UK who have experienced early trauma, attachment disruption, and complex emotional or behavioural challenges. Keeping the PACE model at the core of their work – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy – the Bayleaf Care team build safe, strong, and supportive relationships that aid in the nurture and development of the children in their care. Bayleaf Care provides supportive intervention for children and young people aged five to seventeen for whom living with their families is no longer an option. Its four homes – Yew Tree House, Doveside, Postern Stables, and Chapel House – each provide secure, therapeutic living environments where children are encouraged to develop and flourish. The organisation takes a holistic approach toward every aspect of its care, recognising the importance of ongoing innovation to remain responsive to its children’s needs and improve their mental and emotional wellbeing. It has designed a stimulating environment that develops life skills, moulds positive behaviours, and supports children to achieve their full potential. Its team of skilled, multidisciplinary professionals are dedicated to their daily work of providing children with the best possible opportunity to heal from their trauma and rebuild their lives, so that they are ready to reintegrate into mainstream families, schools, and society. Each child is assigned a dedicated keyworker, to form a secure attachment and deliver individualised emotional support from the very beginning. By also integrating psychotherapists into its close-knit internal team, this means an enhanced level of therapeutic care, compared to many other external care providers. “Our unique selling point lies in the alliance we build between care, education, and a therapeutic, trauma-informed approach, with dedicated keyworkers and in-house psychotherapists delivering a ‘wrap-around’ support system tailored to each child’s emotional needs.” By living and breathing the therapeutic PACE model in their daily work, the Bayleaf Care team promote a positive lifestyle for each and every child, where they can feel comfortable contributing towards family style living and play an important role within the home, allowing them to feel a sense of belonging and build safety within a structured environment. Should a child exhibit misbehaviour, the team don’t use punishment, instead they understand this as a form of communication in line with PACE and that it requires an extra layer of patience, helping the child to feel understood and nurturing a healthier, long-lasting emotional response. Sensory spaces have proven to be effective, calming, and therapeutic environments, too, while the use of a canal boat as a therapy space serves as a creative and engaging change of scenery for therapy. Believing that emotionally safe team members create emotionally safe environments for children, Bayleaf Care has fostered a culture of psychological safety, mutual respect, continuous learning, and shared purpose. It encourages reflection, open dialogue, and team-based decision-making so that everyone feels heard, valued, and supported. Within this, continued professional development is vital towards Bayleaf Care’s proactive approach, ensuring its team have plenty of opportunity to progress their careers and that they are equipped to thoroughly meet the needs of each child. Multiple layers of professional development involve: trauma-informed care training, safeguarding refreshers, and a deep dive into the organisation’s ethos and therapeutic framework; ongoing regular CPD training on therapeutic models, behavioural support, attachment theory, and mental health awareness; regular supervision sessions with line managers and psychotherapists to support emotional intelligence and reflection; embedded team support so that no one is working isolation; and active investment in career progression such as Level 4/5 Residential Childcare Diplomas, leadership pathways, and mentoring. Ultimately, with the solid combination of the PACE therapeutic parenting method, reliable keyworker model, and skilled in-house therapy team, Bayleaf Care ensures that all children receive the deeply personalised and trauma-sensitive support they need to change their lives for the better and look forward to a positive future. In terms of the future of Bayleaf Care, its vision is to become a leader in the social care sector, providing an exceptionally high level of bespoke care, while also working to achieve revolutionary change to develop social care policy and practice on both a local and national level, informing and pushing for positive change within the sector. It also has plans to launch supported accommodation for young people aged 16+ and adult care. We can’t wait to see the continued success of this brilliant organisation. Company name: Bayleaf Care Limited Contact name: Melanie Zamir Website: www.bayleafcare.co.uk
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