A therapeutic children's residential home supporting children and young people aged 8–17
Who We Are
MAAR Haven offers specialist therapeutic children’s homes supporting children and young people aged 8–17 with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) arising from developmental trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and complex attachment difficulties.
Founded on the belief that every child deserves stability, understanding, and the opportunity to thrive, we provide high-quality residential care within a warm, welcoming, and family-centred environment. Our experienced team is committed to building trusting relationships that help young people feel safe, connected, and valued.
Everything we do is guided by our core values of Presence, Belief, Integrity, Interdependence, and Continuity. These principles shape how we care for young people, how we work with families and professionals, and how we create a culture where every child is supported to achieve their full potential.
Through compassionate care, therapeutic support, and high aspirations, we help young people overcome adversity, strengthen their emotional wellbeing, and prepare for a positive and meaningful future.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a warm, comfortable, safe, and engaging therapeutic home for children who live with complex developmental trauma. We offer a family friendly environment, delivered in line with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, in which children experience the safety, dignity, equality, choice, and relationships they need in order to recover and develop.
Our Vision
Our vision is to build one of England’s most therapeutically excellent, Outstanding rated children’s residential care organisations. We will prove that Outstanding is achievable with a small, focused, values led team, and we will achieve it consistently, home by home and child by child.
Our Values
Presence
The relationship is the work.
Not the paperwork, not the process: the adult who is genuinely, consistently there. In this home, no child or young person with EBD is managed from a distance. We stay close, especially when it is hardest, and especially when the child or young person is pushing hardest to test whether we will stay.
Belief
A child’s past is not the ceiling on what comes next.
Every child or young person in this home is capable of a meaningful future. We act on that belief in how we speak about them, write about them, plan for them, and challenge systems that have already given up on them. For young people with EBD who have heard the opposite message consistently, this is not small.
Integrity
We do things properly when no one is checking.
Integrity is the alignment between what we say, what we do, and who we are when no one is checking.
It cannot be switched on for an inspection or a visitor. It is built through countless small decisions: how we speak to a child at the end of a long shift, how we record what actually happened, how we follow through on something we promised last week. Over time, these decisions shape the culture of a home and the experience of every child living in it.
Interdependence
Children thrive in a safe and nurturing environment
Continuity
Every child needs stability, consistent care, trust, and a strong sense of belonging
At MAAR Haven, we understand that children and young people who come into care have often experienced instability, separation, and loss. Our mission is to provide them with stability, consistency, and lasting relationships they can rely on.