Type of service: Day schools, Schools

This is a Local Authority (LA) funded day-school education for pupils aged 7-18 years whose social, emotional or mental health needs or autism spectrum condition (ASC) has made it difficult for them to achieve success in a mainstream school. Pupils will often have additional undiagnosed learning needs, speech, language and communication needs or sensory needs, which create a complex set of barriers to learning that must be addressed before the pupil can settle into education.Pupils attending Essex Fresh Start Independent School often need highly personalised learning programmes and can remain for post-16 programmes of study, specialising in developing independence, preparation for adult life and life after school (including study at college or preparation for the world of work). Run as a parallel service to our day-schools, TCES Group's Create Service offers therapeutic education, delivered through a case-coordination model, to pupils who present (or are at) significant risk to themselves or others. This risk means pupils cannot be educated in a school setting. It may be that this is a temporary situation or the pupil may be returning from a residential therapeutic, out of county placement. We accept referrals from LAs.

Aimed at: Adolescent , Child , Young person

Specialisms: Generic

Other specialisms: Challenging behaviour, Learning disability