Transformative improvements enhance services for local children and families at Trust's Broadoaks Centre

Broadoaks Child Development Centre in Leyland, managed by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is celebrating a transformational new chapter in its journey to enhance services for local children and families.

- By Chris Boden Contributor

Following significant roof and internal refurbishment works, the centre now offers a more welcoming and accessible environment for all who visit.

Broadoaks is a Trust-owned community facility for Children and Young People which provides community and neurodevelopmental services across Chorley, South Ribble and Greater Preston, offering specialist assessment, coordination with other services and long-term support.

The Centre had been suffering from a significant roof-related issue, creating huge challenges for the services to work around, and clouding the ongoing operation of the centre.

Thanks to Trust-based funding and the dedicated work of the LTH Estates team - who collaborated closely with the Broadoaks team, led by Queen's Nurse Victoria Atkinson, Matron for Children's Community and Specialist Nursing - the site has been significantly improved.

Extensive and critical roof work has now been undertaken, with large sections of the roof removed and replaced, which successfully resolved the issue and helped to secure the long-term operation of the centre.

In addition to this, further work to address a number of issues affecting the WC provisions at the centre has also been undertaken. This has seen existing facilities repaired, adapted and improved, providing three separate WC and baby change facilities, which have been modernised to create much enhanced and more accessible facilities for those in the centre.