Leave arrangements

During your admission, the team will encourage you to have leave away from the unit. Any leave will be decided with the team, the young person, and family/carers. Leave arrangements are generally planned in advance and will be agreed with family/carers in conjunction with a risk assessment.

Leave usually starts as escorted leave supported by staff/family/friends. A young person may be granted unescorted leave, which would need to be agreed by the person with parental responsibility and the ward team. You will be encouraged to take local area leave, and home leave as part of your treatment. This helps the team along with you and your family/carer to look at how well you are managing whilst away from the unit. We would ask that families and carers feed back to the staff how the periods of leave have been for everyone involved. This helps us to plan for further periods of leave, gradually building up time away from the unit. We would ask that you ensure you return from weekend leave by 9pm to ensure there is adequate time for this handover of information to take place.