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Residential care · Seven Sisters, South Wales

A home where every young person can thrive.

Alpha Living is a single, dedicated home for children and young people with complex needs. Our care is therapeutic, consistent, and built around the young person, not the system.

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Who we are

One home. Undivided focus.

Alpha Living runs one children's home, Tŷ Bryn, in Seven Sisters, in the Dulais Valley near Neath. We chose to stay small on purpose. Tŷ Bryn is home to just two young people at a time, so every child is truly known: by name, by history, and by what makes them feel safe. Our team is never stretched thin across a dozen homes.

We provide nurturing residential care for children and young people with complex needs, in a setting that feels like a home rather than a unit. Our work is grounded in an understanding that behaviour is communication, and that trust is built slowly, through consistency and genuine relationships.

We work in partnership with local authorities, social workers and families across South Wales, and we welcome scrutiny. Our Care Inspectorate Wales reports are available on request.

Our story

Built on decades of experience.

Alpha Living was founded by people who have spent their careers caring for children, with decades of combined experience across both private and charity-run homes, including services they have worked in and services they have run.

They started Alpha Living to create something special: a single home, done properly, shaped by everything they have learned about what genuinely helps a young person settle, trust and grow, and what doesn't. Tŷ Bryn is the home they always wanted to be able to offer.

The team behind Alpha Living
Our approach

Therapeutic care, grounded in relationships.

Every child arrives with a story. Our role is to understand it, and to build a daily life that is calm, predictable and warm enough for them to settle and grow.

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Trauma-informed

We understand that early experiences shape how a young person sees the world. Our care is built around safety, predictability and steady relationships, with plans tailored to each young person's needs, triggers and strengths rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.

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Attachment & PACE

Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy guide how our staff respond day to day, building steady relationships that help a young person feel safe and understood.

03

Behaviour as communication

We look for the need behind a behaviour and meet it proactively, teaching new ways to cope rather than relying on sanctions that rarely create lasting change.

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Qualified and experienced staff

Our team is experienced and well supported, with ongoing training, registration with Social Care Wales, and relevant qualifications either held or being worked towards. Consistent, skilled adults who are looked after in turn are what allow a young person to feel safe.

05

Education & routine

Structure, learning and individual routines shaped around each young person's needs and wants give young people the predictability that so often was missing before they arrived.

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Partnership

We keep social workers, families and professionals close, with honest updates and an open door for meetings and care planning.

The living room at Tŷ Bryn
The home

Tŷ Bryn, in the heart of the Dulais Valley.

Seven Sisters is a close-knit village surrounded by green hills. It's quiet, safe, and a world away from the chaos some of our young people have known. The home itself is set up for everyday family life: shared meals, space to relax, and room to be a child.

  • ✓Home for two: Tŷ Bryn is set up for just two young people, so care is genuinely individual.
  • ✓Small by design: one home means consistent adults and a genuine sense of belonging.
  • ✓A real home: comfortable, personal spaces rather than an institutional setting.
  • ✓Settled surroundings: a calm valley village with good links across Neath Port Talbot and Swansea.
  • ✓Regulated & accountable: registered with Care Inspectorate Wales, with reports shared openly.
Take a look inside

Step inside Tŷ Bryn.

Explore the home room by room in our interactive 3D walkthrough, the next best thing to visiting in person. Tap below to open it full screen.

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Floorplan

The full layout of the home.

Floorplan of Tŷ Bryn
Who we care for

Children and young people with complex needs.

We care for young people whose needs can't be met by a standard placement: those who may have experienced trauma, disrupted attachments, or repeated placement breakdowns, and who need a setting prepared to stay alongside them.

That means we don't give up when things are hard. We plan for difficult days, we keep relationships steady through them, and we measure success in small, real steps: a young person who feels safe, who trusts an adult, who begins to imagine a future.

If you're a social worker or commissioner considering a placement, we're happy to talk through whether our home is the right fit, honestly, and with the young person's interests first.

Children's voices

Heard, and acted upon.

At Tŷ Bryn, young people's views don't just get listened to, they help shape how the home is run. We make time to hear what each young person thinks through regular young people's meetings, a "your home, your choice" suggestion box, one-to-one key-working sessions, and regular meetings with our Responsible Individual.

Our practice is rights-based and consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Every young person is supported to understand their rights, to have a real say in their own care plan, and to access independent advocacy or a Children's Rights Officer whenever they want one.

When something matters to a young person, we act on it, and we show them what changed as a result.

Referrals

Placing a young person with us

We welcome referrals from local authorities across South Wales. Get in touch and we'll respond quickly with an honest view on suitability and availability.

  • 1Get in touchCall or email with an outline of the young person's needs.
  • 2Information sharingWe review the referral together and assess whether we're the right home.
  • 3Planning & transitionIf it's a good fit, we plan a careful, paced introduction.

Make a referral

Speak to us directly. We'd rather have a conversation than a form.

✆07592 134955
✉danielle@alphalivingwales.com
◷We aim to respond the same working day
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Contact

Let's talk.

Whether you're a commissioner, a social worker or a family member, we're glad to hear from you.

Telephone
07592 134955
Email
danielle@alphalivingwales.com
Registered office
Alpha1 Living Ltd
28 Heol Gwyrosydd
Treboeth, Swansea
SA5 7DA

Where we are

Tŷ Bryn is in Seven Sisters, Neath, in the Dulais Valley. Our registered office is in Treboeth, Swansea. We work with placing authorities across South Wales.

Alpha Living is registered with Care Inspectorate Wales. Inspection reports are available on request.

Registered & regulated by

Alpha Living is registered with Care Inspectorate Wales, and works in partnership with local authorities across South Wales. Inspection reports are available on request.