About Us

Dudley Lodge, a registered non-profit making charity established in 1895, is one of the leading Family Assessment Centres in England and Wales.

Residential Assessments

The Centre is registered by Ofsted, under the Care Standards Act 2000, to accommodate and assess a maximum ten families, on a residential basis, at any one time. However, in order to provide intensive assessments, we now operate with 8 families in residence.

Following a recent unannounced inspection (3rd, 5th & 6th December 2007) by Ofsted, Dudley Lodge is judged and rated overall by this inspectorate to provide an 'Outstanding' service.

Community Based Assessments

In addition to our residential team we have a small team dedicated to provide community based assessments within the family home.

Assessment

Dudley Lodge is able to provide a wide variety and combination of various assessment arrangements in order to meet the needs of children, young people and their families and provide detailed information for decision-making purposes. For this purpose we provide a range of viability assessments, residential assessments, community-based assessments, day assessments and assessment of contact.

An assessment incorporates the following components:
a) Assessment of the child/ren;
b) Assessment of the children's relationship with their parent/s;
c) Assessment of a parent/carer's ability to meet the children's various needs;
d) Assessment of the risk that the parent/s may present to the child/ren;
e) Assessment of the parent/s present capacity to change in the reasonably foreseeable future in order to improve deficient parenting.