Children’s Homes Leadership Programme
Ongoing professional development, practical learning and expert support for managers and leaders responsible for delivering high-quality residential childcare.
Leadership needs more than occasional training.
Leading a Children’s Home means balancing the needs and experiences of children with safeguarding, workforce leadership, regulatory responsibilities, quality assurance and the continuous development of the service.
The Children’s Homes Leadership Programme brings professional development into an ongoing structure. Rather than relying on isolated training events, CHLP combines regular learning, leadership development, sector discussion and access to professional support.
The aim is practical: to help leaders remain informed, reflective and confident while strengthening the quality of care, leadership and practice within their homes.
What CHLP includes.
A continuing programme combining professional learning, leadership development and support throughout your membership.
Two Live Online Seminars
Attend up to two Social Care Skills Live Online Seminars each month, choosing topics relevant to your role, home and current development priorities.
Monthly Leadership Development
A dedicated two-hour development session each month focused on leadership, management, regulation, quality and the realities of residential childcare.
Professional Support
Access to ongoing professional learning and guidance, with Premium membership adding dedicated monthly consultancy time for individual or service-focused support.
Updates & Professional Community
Keep connected with relevant sector developments and professional discussion through the CHLP community, including the private WhatsApp group.
Time to think about leadership, not just operations.
Every month, CHLP members have a dedicated two-hour leadership development session. These sessions are exclusive to programme members and create space to explore the challenges of leading a Children’s Home, consider emerging practice and regulatory issues, and reflect on how leadership decisions affect children, teams and the quality of care.
Topics can respond to developments within residential childcare as well as recurring areas of leadership responsibility.
Two Live Online Seminars every month.
Leadership development needs vary. Instead of prescribing the same training to every member, CHLP allows you to select up to two Social Care Skills Live Online Seminars each month from the available programme.
This allows your learning to respond to your current responsibilities, priorities within your home and areas where you want to strengthen practice.
Choose your membership.
Choose Standard for the core leadership development programme, or Premium when you also want dedicated monthly consultancy support.
CHLP Standard
The complete CHLP professional development programme.
- Up to two Live Online Seminars each month
- Exclusive monthly two-hour CHLP development session
- Sector updates and professional resources
- Access to the CHLP professional community
- Private WhatsApp group
CHLP Premium
CHLP membership with dedicated consultancy and professional support each month.
- Everything included in Standard membership
- 2 hours of dedicated online consultancy each month
- Individual or home-focused professional support
- Space to explore operational, regulatory and leadership challenges
- Practical support with development and improvement
Talk to us about organisational membership.
If you are looking to involve several managers or leaders across multiple Children’s Homes, speak to us about an arrangement that reflects your organisational structure, development priorities and number of participants.
Supporting current and developing leaders.
CHLP is designed for professionals with leadership responsibilities in Children’s Homes, as well as those preparing to take on greater responsibility.
The programme supports leadership development at different levels while keeping learning connected to the regulatory, operational and practice context of residential childcare.
Learn. Reflect. Apply.
CHLP is designed as a continuing development cycle, connecting new learning with professional reflection and application within your home.
Learn
Build knowledge through live seminars, sector updates and focused leadership development.
Reflect
Consider what learning means for your leadership, team, systems, decisions and the experiences of children.
Apply
Translate professional development into stronger leadership, improved practice and better quality of care.
Make leadership development part of your practice.
Join CHLP through Standard or Premium membership, or speak to Social Care Skills if you would like to discuss whether the programme is right for you or your organisation.