About us

The Planned Environment Therapy Archives and Special Collections, including the National Childcare Library are part of The Mulberry Bush Organisation.

Our online catalogue is designed to help you navigate our collection of original and published materials that together record the history of

  • Therapeutic communities
  • Community living environments
  • Enabling environments
  • Planned environments

Visit our websiteto find out more.

About our collections online

We are committed to widening access to our collections and this includes sharing materials online where possible.

Unless otherwise stated all materials are copyright of the Planned Environment Therapy Archives. You can check the copyright status of an item by reading the ‘Conditions governing reproduction’ field on the catalogue record.

If an item is in copyright you must not copy the item or display it on your own website. You can link to the item from your website, blog or other online account, but you must not reproduce it without written permission of the copyright holder. Please contact archives@mulberrybush.org.uk for more information about specific items.