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Excellence – Moonrise 24-Hour Recruitment specialises in providing exceptional facilities that are assets to the communities they serve.
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Moonrise spares no expense in opening children’ s homes that are an asset to the community
34 | Tees Business
When communities face the prospect of children’ s homes opening near them, it’ s perhaps only natural that they fear what they do not understand.
But Jessica and John Gwaringa, of Moonrise 24-Hr Recruitment, specialise in providing exceptional facilities that are assets to the communities they serve.
The entrepreneurial and caring couple acquired four buildings they wanted to open as children’ s homes and applied for a change of use for the buildings to the relevant councils’ planning departments. Angie Askins, who is employed by Moonrise as the registered manager of the children’ s homes and will get them up and running with the highest quality, caring staff in place, said:“ We have three properties in the Stockton area and we’ ve just had a visit from Ofsted for our registration and we are almost ready to open these homes – but we will not be rushing things.
“ We need to ensure we are accommodating the right children with the right staff in place, one home at a time – and Jessica and John are very supportive of the need to take things slowly.
“ There is no push from them to just get things opened, as everyone understands we have to tread carefully.”
Each of the homes in Stockton will support up to two children.
Meanwhile, Moonrise has also just received planning permission to open a 10-bedroom home that is being converted into a five-bedroom facility for disabled children in Redcar and Cleveland.
Angie said:“ Redcar and Cleveland has a high demand for care facilities for children with disabilities at the moment.
“ This property has multiple bedrooms – and we think we will have five available after adaptations, as we’ ve had to create some rooms with ensuite bathroom facilities to accommodate children with disabilities.
“ We’ ve also adapted the fence at the front of the property, because it wasn’ t in keeping with the local village.”
Despite some initial objections from