A new children’s home could open in Whittlesey for young people with learning disabilities.

Plans have been sent to Fenland District Council to ask for permission to use a house in Moreton Close as a children’s home for two young people.

The application has been submitted by Total Care Options Ltd, which said the home would be for up to two children aged between four and 17, who have learning disabilities or autism.

The plans said support would be provided to the children by two carers during the day and one carer overnight, so there would always be 24/7 care.

The company explained that the children and staff at the home would be “like a normal family”.

It said some of the support offered would include helping the children gain independent skills, supervising homework, taking them shopping, to school, and to other activities, so that they are “generally supported to achieve a good family life”.

The plans said: “Each child living at the property will be allocated a bedroom which they will be supported to personalise just like any child living with their parents.

“One of the bedrooms will be used by staff as an office.

“The house will be personalised just like a normal household and it will not be institutionalised.

“The objective is to provide a home which will allow the children to live as close to a conventional family life as is reasonably possible.

“Therefore, the use of the property does not appear to be nor will it be experienced as an institutional environment.

“The children would form a single household on their own.”