Cartref Homes

General information

Based in the borough of Swale along the North Kent Coast.

The company opened its first registered home in 1997 and now operates 4 care homes and a supported living scheme that provides both multiple occupancy housing and out-reach support.

From the outset the driving principles behind each of the company’s undertakings have been to respect service users’ rights to development, independence, choice and inclusion.

We believe such principles are best delivered by services that are locally run, staffed and managed; and on a scale that can promote immediate, sensitive responses by teams that are closely familiarised with the individual needs of service users.

Cartref Homes UK Ltd therefore aspires to remain a company that provides well-resourced, clinically excellent, responsive services yet retains a sense of intimacy in its service delivery by recognising the value of nurturing close working relations with service users.

The Senior Directors – Robert and Brenda Tyler – have over 40 years’ experience of providing services to young people with special needs through Cartref Homes and, before that, as foster carers.

The Managing Director – Tony Vallis – is a qualified Social Worker and Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities) with 30-plus year’s involvement in local Learning Disabilities services. Tony has primary responsibility for business and policy development and also takes an active involvement in the company’s quality assurance and staff training programmes.