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Outstanding Care for People with Autistic Spectrum Disorder

We are known to our customers and partners as Tabs (Take A Break Services). This is because we began in 2007 by offering respite but this quickly evolved to residential care and supported living. We have subsequently branched out into outreach services to support people at home. We pride ourselves on being an autism specific independent service and so there is no head office located somewhere else.

We currently have 30 staff including management, 22 of our staff have been with us for 3 years or more and several have been with us since the beginning! Our staff stay with us much longer than average in the care sector.

We are specialists in supporting people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and everything we plan and do is with this in mind.

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OUTSTANDING

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Meet our team

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William Sweeney

Registered Provider and Managing Director

William started the Tabs project back in 2005 alongside his wife Julie Sweeney.
He worked with all the Service users from the start and now handles the day to day business side of the organisation.

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Kate Woodward

Registered Manager

Kate has a wealth of experience in the care sector. She joined in March 2019 and has been an excellent addition to TABS with her experience with Autism.
Is a strong advocate for all our service users.

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Michelle Sands

Manager

Chelle has been with Tabs since it started in 2007 and has been instrumental in its progress.
She alongside Kate Woodward handles the residential side of Tabs.
We are proud to have Chelle as our own in house PROACT-SCIPr-UK trainer.

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Julie Sweeney

Registered Provider and Education Specialist

Julie has a wealth and depth of knowledge following on from over 25 years working almost exclusively in the field of Autism.
She is our specialist on education and work tasks and is currently taking a course in Yoga to teach people with Autism

EMAIL [email protected]

Elliot Sandy

Respite & Outreach Co-Ordinator

Elliot joined Tabs in 2018 and is supporting all our service users on a regular basis. He will be liaising with parents and service users in setting up our expanding respite and outreach service.

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Specialist support

Specialist Support:

Living & Learning Profile

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Specialist Support:

Outreach – Support at Home

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Residential Living Profile

Our residential service is highly specialised to meet the needs of people with ASD

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Respite Profile

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Short Term Crisis Support

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Awards…

NQC have given us the gold award for two years running… ”
The organisations who monitor and inspect our services have given us high ratings. NQC (Northampton quality checkers) have given us the gold award for two years running. This is their highest award and we are very proud of this. CQC rated us as “outstanding” , following this we were featured in the Chronicle and Echo as the second highest rated service in Northampton!