Children's homes · alternative provision · fostering
Websites for children's services, safeguarding first.
In a previous role I set up websites for children's homes. I know a website for a children's service has to reassure placing authorities and families, help you recruit good staff, and keep children's details off the internet.
Simple pricing
£199 website
one-off
One-off price, yours to keep. Live in about a week.
Then £19.99 a month Hosting, security and small changes (up to about 30 minutes a month). No long contract.
Get my free sample- No identifying detailsNo photos, names or stories that could identify a child.
- Your address, your callKeep the home's address off the site and use a contact form and email instead.
- Clear for referrersWho you care for, your approach and how to make an enquiry, easy to find.
- Help with recruitingA careers page that shows what it's like to work with you.
What I'd include
Every service is different, so we'd agree the details together by email. These are the things I'd usually suggest.
Children's homes
For placing authorities
- Who you care for: ages, needs and number of beds
- Your approach to care, in plain English
- A link to your latest Ofsted report, if you'd like one
- A summary of your statement of purpose
- A simple way to make a placement enquiry
Alternative provision
For schools and families
- What you offer and who it's for
- A typical day or week, without identifying anyone
- How schools and local authorities refer
- Policies you want to share, easy to find
- Contact details that suit how you work
Fostering
For future foster carers
- What fostering with you involves
- The support and training you offer carers
- Answers to the questions people ask first
- A short enquiry form so it's easy to take the first step
- Set up so people searching locally can find you
Safeguarding, built in
- Forms ask for the minimum
- Enquiry forms ask for the referrer's contact details only, never a child's personal information. Referral details can then go through your own secure process.
- Images chosen with care
- Photos of rooms, gardens and activities, never children. If you don't have suitable photos, I'll keep the design clean and simple without them.
- Secure and kept up to date
- HTTPS on every page, with security checks and updates included in the £19.99 a month.
See a sample first. Free.
Tell me about your service and I'll design a sample homepage for you, free and with no obligation. Please don't include any information about children or young people in the form.
- Fill in the form. It takes about a minute.
- I reply by email, usually within a day or two.
- You get your sample homepage to look at in your own time.