Designing with Care

Year: 2006
Topic: Corporate parenting, Residential care, SIRCC, Voices of young people
Author: Catherine Docherty, Andrew Kendrick, Paul Sloan, Jennifer Lerpiniere

This exploratory study examined the attitudes to a range of designs in four residential care homes for children in South Lanarkshire. The project set out to identify the benefits and disadvantages to young people and staff of a change in approach to the design of interior spaces.