Brinscall Care

Empowering young people to thrive today, and succeed tomorrow.

Safe, nurturing homes where young people feel valued, supported and able to thrive.

Make a referral How we work

Three very different reasons to be here.

Pick the one that sounds like you. Nothing is hidden behind the choice, and you can double back.

For professionals

I'm making a referral

Placement enquiries and matching, with a named team and a direct line.

Start a referral

For care professionals

I'm looking for work

What the job involves, how we train, and the roles open now.

See what the work is like

For families & young people

I want to understand what you do

What residential care actually is, in plain English.

Understand our approach

Our homes

Five homes across Lancashire and Semi-rural Bolton.

Each one is a real house on a real street, small by design.

A red-brick detached house with bay windows and a tiled roof, seen from its back lawn in late afternoon sun. A garden table and two chairs sit on the patio, washing hangs on the line, and a football rests in the grass. Open countryside lies beyond the hedge.

A representative photograph, not this home.

Aurora House

Ages 7–17

“A space to learn and grow.”

An established therapeutic community offering a welcoming, nurturing environment for young people recovering from adverse or traumatic experiences. Well-appointed personal spaces, a large garden, and country parks and local amenities close by.

The home

Large garden and outdoor space
Well-appointed personal spaces
Access to country parks
Local amenities nearby

Therapeutic support

Trauma-informed care
Person-centred therapy
Mindfulness
Thrive practices

Enquire about Aurora House All homes

Locations are indicative and town-level only. We do not publish the addresses of our homes, to protect the privacy of the young people living there; exact locations are shared with professionals during a placement enquiry. Basemap Esri, HERE, Garmin, Ordnance Survey, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

What the homes are actually like

Put a week back in order.

A children's home does not have to be a corridor of bedrooms with a staff office at the end. Ours are ordinary houses on ordinary streets, with a handful of young people and adults who are still there a year later. The six things below are what that comes down to, and they start in a pile, the way a week does.

A bedroom that is already theirs
Meals cooked in the house, at a table
Someone awake in the house all night
The same adults, arrival to leaving
Adults who get support of their own
Never more than four in the house

The kitchen of one of our homes at dusk: a pine table laid for the evening meal with a loaf on a board, and a pan steaming on the hob behind.

A representative photograph, not one of our own kitchens.

Young people’s voices

In their own words.

Young people's voices should be visible, respected and safely shared.

“Staff helped me believe I could do more than I thought.”
A young person
“I liked that people didn't give up on me.”
A young person
“My key worker helped me feel listened to.”
A young person

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Put a week back in order.

A bedroom that is already theirs

Meals cooked in the house, at a table

Someone awake in the house all night

The same adults, arrival to leaving

Adults who get support of their own

Never more than four in the house