Welcome to Hillcrest
Hillcrest Children’s Services is a national provider of specialist therapeutic children’s homes and schools for boys and girls with social, emotional and mental health difficulties (SEMH).
We provide the following services to ensure positive outcomes for all children placed with us.
- High quality Ofsted registered children’s homes in rural & urban settings
- DfE registered special schools – full curriculum and vocational training
- A child centred therapeutic approach to care
- Clinical support provided throughout a placement, offering highly specialised individual assessment
- High ratios of qualified and experienced staff
- A fostering service providing specialised, stable and consistent family environments

Hillcrest is part of the Outcomes First Group which is a national provider of services providing education and therapeutic care to children, young people and adults with autism, learning disabilities and social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH).
Hillcrest is committed to empowering and inspiring individuals to learn, achieve and succeed, in a bid to help reintegrate them back into mainstream settings, facilitate plans to return home or enable them to progress as individuals in their own home placements and schools.
Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH)
Help Sheets
The Hillcrest Clinical Team have created a series of help sheets offering advice and guidance to carers, professionals and local authorities for children and young people who have experienced developmental trauma. To see the full series, or to sign up to receive them, please follow this link.
News
Click here to read the latest news, stories and successes from each of our services
