Specialist Residential Therapeutic Care · Est. 2004
Amberleigh Care operates two national centres of excellence for young males who have exhibited harmful sexual behaviour — combining trauma-informed therapeutic community living with clinical oversight and education, built around evidence and NICE guidance.
Our Approach
Both centres operate as formal therapeutic communities — a deliberate, highly structured way of living where routine, boundaries and relationships are all worked with intentionally in service of recovery.
Daily life, roles and routines are structured deliberately — every interaction is part of the therapeutic task, not incidental to it.
Our understanding of harmful sexualised behaviour is grounded in this strengths-based framework, not risk-management alone.
Assessment and day-to-day practice are consistent with 2016 NICE guidance for harmful sexual behaviour, led by a forensic psychologist.
Our Centres
Each centre combines residential care, education and clinical therapy on site, set within the rural landscapes of Powys and Shropshire.
Powys
Welshpool, SY21 9AF
A residential therapeutic community and Amberleigh Therapeutic School, available term time and out of term time.
Shropshire
Redhill, Telford, TF2 9NZ
A residential therapeutic community and Amberleigh Therapeutic School, available term time and out of term time.
A Young Person's Journey
Boys arrive with us having faced very difficult and traumatic early lives, almost always with social services involvement and often a string of failed placements behind them. Their length of stay and move-on route are shaped around their needs and age on arrival.
Referral
Often directly from family, always with social services, frequently with police and legal involvement.
24–30 Months
Structured relationship-based living, integrated 1:1 and systemic therapy, education, and risk reduction work.
Move On
Return to family or foster care, completion of education into college, or a supported step toward independence.
Therapy & Education
Direct 1:1 sessions matter, but therapy at Amberleigh is systemic and integrated across the whole service, overseen by an in-house clinical team led by a Forensic Psychologist.
Employee-Owned Trust · 2025
No individual shareholders. No dividends. Profits are reinvested into the service, the staff who deliver it, and the young people it exists for — a deliberate alternative to Private Equity ownership in children's social care.
Referrals
Both centres take referrals around the clock. Email your contact details and we'll come back to you, or call the centre directly.
Email Referrals Team