Chiefs have signed off on a £3.2 milion new care home for children with disabilities after a watchdog and fire service found the current home posed safety risks to its vulnerable residents.
Members of Tameside’s executive cabinet have agreed a plan to create an ‘innovative’ new build home for nine children to provide long and short term care, transition accommodation and step down support. It would replace the Boyds Walk children’s home, based in Dukinfield, which has been used to look after vulnerable young people aged between 11 and 17 since 1983.
These include residents with autism and severe learning and communication difficulties. Some children are under deprivation of liberty orders. The home is owned by Jigsaw Homes but is leased by Tameside council.
