Exploration & Learning
Our ARC at New Forest Care offers safe, short-term care for children in crisis—supporting those at risk and guiding them toward stability
Building Skills – Boosting Confidence
Our ARC (Activity Residential Care) Services at New Forest Care provide short-term placements (up to 90 days). Our children are often facing placement breakdowns or beginning to show complex behaviours that make long-term placements difficult.
They may also be at risk of:
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Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
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Involvement with gangs
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Harm in the community
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Causing harm to others
Our first priority is to ensure our children are kept safe: away from both physical and emotional harm and risk-taking behaviours.
Creative and Practical Learning
During the short time a child spends within our ARC service, we will work with them to develop an individual programme. As a result, these programmes provide the opportunity to try various new activities as well as maintain existing interests. Ultimately, it is our aim to support them in achieving short qualifications or certificates as far as possible, for instance, previous programmes have included horse management, mechanics, art and pottery.
Activities with Purpose
Every ARC placement is tailored to the individual—helping young people discover new interests, develop practical skills, and earn recognised certificates along the way
Engage, Explore, Empower
Through outdoor adventure, we help children in crisis build confidence, face challenges, and discover positive change in safe, natural settings
Embracing the Outdoors
The outdoor activities we provide make use of natural environments to engage, present challenges and learning opportunities to allow our children to take appropriate risks in safe rewarding surroundings. These activities are physically and mentally challenging and are used to engage and bring about change in children who are in crisis.
Building Relationships is Crucial
Helping children tp feel safe and relaxed is essential to enable them to conquer new challenges often outside of their existing comfort zone.
It is our belief that building a trusting relationship with consistent staff is paramount to support this. For this reason we do not use agency bank staff.
Skills Development
We support children to build practical, emotional, and social skills—helping them grow in confidence and independence every day