Welcome to Dignitas care
A Nurturing Environment Where Every Child Matters
Dignitas care is a specialist provider of residential care for children and young people who may have complex needs. We aim to provide tailor made support in a nurturing place of safety and stability- just like a family like environment. Our forward thinking care model ensures that the children feel safe, secure and can develop a sense of normalisation through routines and activities such as education, exercise and therapeutic activities.
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Our Homes
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Woodthorpe, Nottingham NG5
Our Aims and Values
Our Aims
At Dignitas-care , our primary aim is to support the personal growth, independence, and well-being of every child in our care. We are committed to creating a nurturing environment where young people can thrive emotionally, socially, and academically.
What We Aim to Achieve:
- Provide high-quality, compassionate care through a dedicated and experienced team of professionals.
- Offer a group living environment that feels safe, inclusive, and supportive—helping young people build meaningful relationships.
- Encourage confidence, independence, and self-responsibility through personalised to UK.
- Work closely with families, social workers, and external agencies to ensure consistent, child-centered care.
- Prepare young people for reintegration into their families, communities, or independent living, based on their unique goals.
- Involve each child in decisions that affect their life, helping them feel heard, respected, and empowered.
- Set clear goals and celebrate every milestone achieved, fostering motivation and a sense of accomplishment.
- Offer treatment and help for the complex needs of children based on their traumas and difficult early life experiences.
Our Values
At Dignitas-care , our values are the foundation of everything we do. They guide our approach to care, shape our team culture, and ensure every child is supported with dignity, compassion, and respect.
What We Stand For:
- Every decision we make is based on the individual needs, rights, and aspirations of the young people we support.
- We treat each child with the utmost respect—protecting their right to privacy, individuality, and choice.
- We encourage young people to take an active role in their own lives, helping them build confidence and independence.
- Our team works with empathy and understanding, always allowing space for growth, healing, and trust-building.
- We celebrate differences and foster an inclusive environment that respects every background, culture, and identity.
- We hold ourselves to the highest standards, continuously evaluating and improving the quality of our care.
- We go above and beyond regulatory requirements to deliver safe, effective, and meaningful support that makes a real difference.
- We are always exploring new ways to support our children with their complex needs including therapy based tailored help and support
Therapy & Intervention
Helping Children Heal, Grow, and Thrive
We aim to ensure that children, carers and staff are supported within their placements to reduce the risk of a placement breaking down, resulting in further disrupted relationships and loss for the child or young person. As a service, we strive to be proactive rather than reactive, aiming to create and grow stability from an early stage.
We try to empower those who are working with children on the front line. We believe that a child’s Foster Carer, key worker or residential team are the best forms of intervention for the child, providing necessary authoritative parenting, commitment, consistency, sensitivity and attunement.
We offer a range of psychological interventions to children and young people, Foster Carers and adoptive parents. Our interventions are based on the needs of the client and draw from an eclectic range of psychological approaches including:
Play Therapy
A form of therapy in which play is used as a means of helping the client to express and communicate their feelings.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Talking therapy which encourages the client to manage their difficulties by changing the way they think and subsequently behave.
Mentalisation-based Approach
Encouraging the client to think about thinking; helping the client to make sense of how their thoughts, beliefs and feelings are linked to their actions and behaviours.
Psychodynamic Approaches
Approaches emphasising the psychological forces that underlie human behaviour, emotions, feelings and how they might relate to, and be shaped by, early experiences.
The key to unlocking each child’s potential
We aim to maximise every child and young person’s potential, and by focusing on the care they receive we not only help them to achieve, but to recover from the impact of ACEs. After years of possible trauma, rejection and hurt, we seek to instil a sense of belonging and positivity.