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Leon Hurlesbrook
Registered Manager
Leon leads the home day-to-day, overseeing care planning and the staff team at Sandal House.
Now welcoming new placements · Wakefield
A safe, caring home where every child is seen.
Sandal House is a small residential care home in Wakefield supporting children and young people with Learning Disabilities and Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties. We're here to help them grow, learn, and feel they belong.
OfstedRegistered & regulated
4 : 1Staff to young people ratio
Ages 8–18LD & EBD specialist support
— Our home
Somewhere to land. Somewhere to grow.
A nurturing residential setting in Wakefield, designed around the needs of children with Learning Disabilities and Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties.
Sandal House is a warm, homely residential setting with comfortable shared spaces, gardens, and quiet corners where young people can take a breath. Every child has their own bedroom which they help decorate when they move in — because feeling at home starts with somewhere that feels like yours.
Our approach is therapeutic, trauma-informed, and built on long-term relationships. We work closely with schools, CAMHS, social workers, and families to make sure every young person has a plan that's genuinely theirs — one built around their interests, their goals, and the way they best learn and communicate.
Days at Sandal House are calm, predictable, and full of small wins: cooking together, trips out locally, and quiet evenings reading or gaming. Routine matters. So does laughter.
Therapeutic care
Trauma-informed approaches with on-site therapy support and clinical supervision.
Bespoke spaces
Comfortable communal rooms, gardens, and bedrooms each child makes their own.
Education first
Strong links with local SEN schools and on-site tuition when that's the right fit.
Joy in the everyday
Cooking, days out, music, sport, and long evenings just being a kid.
— Around the home
A look inside
Sandal House.
Spaces designed to feel calm, familiar, and welcoming — with plenty of room to play, to learn, and to be quiet when that’s what’s needed.
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Photographed across our home and gardens — names and faces of the young people in our care are kept private throughout. — The Sandal House team
— Meet the team
The people who make Sandal, Sandal.
A consistent, well-trained team is the single most important thing we offer. Most of our staff have been with us for over five years.
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Ryan Lymer
Responsible Individual
Ryan holds overall responsibility for the quality and safety of care at Sandal House on behalf of WPS Care Ltd.