| Description | Children's home records including the following:
Financial records including banking records 2004-2014, invoice records 2011-2015, income abstracts 2007-2013, order books 2008-2011, petty cash records 2002-2015;
Children's records including photograph albums, admission and discharge registers 2001-2014, medication records 2006-2014, residents' meeting records 2011-2014, restorative action records 2009-2014;
Household records including daily log books 2011-2014, communications books 2010-2014, health and safety management 2007-2015, appointment diaries 2010-2014, visitors' books 2008-2012, complaints books 2005-2014, physical intervention books 2007-2014, significant event books 2004-2014, shift planning records 2012-2014;
Management records including Ofsted inspection papers 2013-2014, building regs compliance records 2009-2014, management meeting minutes 2013-2014, managers' record books 2007-2010;
Property and maintenance records including inventory c2007-2013 and vehicle drivers log book 2013-2014;
Staff records including staff meeting minutes 2010-2014, training files early 21st cent, annual leave sheets 2010-2013, and 53 personnel files 1993-2016. |
| Administrative History | Greenacres / 125c Market Street / Stephenson
Owner: Derbyshire County Council
Area: North East Derbyshire
Opened: 1977
Closed: As at 2016, the home was open for outreach only. Date of last resident: 2014/2015
History: The original scheme was to build in the grounds of Clay Cross Hall a centre to provide for more difficult and disturbed boys, partly with the intention of removing the unsatisfactory arrangement whereby the boys were accommodated outside the county. The home opened in 1977 and was called Greenacres, operating as a short-term Observation and Assessment Centre. There was also provision called the Greenacres School on site, active in the 1980's. In March 1997 Greenacres was re-branded and named 125C Market Street. This building was demolished. A new home was built in 2007-2008 on the site of Brunel's car park called Stephenson Unit, which accommodated 7 children. On 22nd September 2015 Cabinet Members approved closure of the home following an Ofsted Inspection on 6th August 2014, a compliance notice and further inspection where the overall judgement was inadequate. There are currently no residents at Stephenson, the last resident was present c.2014/15. As at July 2016, staff are occupying the building, providing outreach support.
Historic Units: The Home's Child Registers indicate from 1992 that there were three separate units compiling the building these were: Arkwright Unit (c.6 bedrooms), Stephenson Unit (7 bedrooms in 2005), and Brunel (also known as The Bungalow) which included a secure element to the unit. There were also 3 Independent Living Flats as part of the building (c.1995). Brunel was originally built to accommodate just two children, increased to 5 or 6 beds in 1985 and 8 beds in c.1993. There was a temporary closure of Brunel for repairs due to fire damage in November 1995 until June 1996. Stephenson Unit was indicated in Home's Staff and Child Registers as out of use 20th January 1997 to 13th May 1997, and Arkwright Unit was indicated as unused from 01st May 1998. A new secure unit at Market Street opened in 1996 and by 1997 a "significant reduction in short-term 'holding' placements has been achieved" (Children's Services Plan 1997-2000). Brunel unit closed in June 2004.
Clientele: Accommodating children and young people aged 8-18 years, who have been victims of neglect and abuse, with behavioural difficulties, high levels of vulnerability and involvements with the police. However did provide emergency accommodation to a young mum and baby. Originally only for boys, Greenacres took girls for the first time in 1985. It was built with a secure unit for young offenders. In 2008, Stephenson House accommodated 7 short term and emergency beds for children and young people age 11 - 17 years needing immediate care due to behavioural difficulties, involvements with the police or substance misuse. |
| Custodial History | These records were deposited in Derbyshire Record Office in August 2016. |