Uncompromising Standards
Our Approach
Our highly dedicated, skilled and experienced in-house teams work collaboratively with parents, carers, and local authorities to deliver outstanding outcomes, enabling children to thrive and inspiring a future that every young person and family deserves.
Our range of specialist settings offer unrivalled opportunities, experiences and support for every child both in and outside of the classroom. Our unique approach ensures that our young people have access to an integrated team of experts across Education, Therapy and Futures.
Every team member works together with each other, keeping the young person at the heart of everything that they do. We call this approach our Integrated Team Around the Child (ITAC) model. This approach enables us to deliver our services in a bespoke, integrated and coherent way to get the best possible outcomes for each young person.
Integrated Team Around The Child Model
Our model ensures that each young person realises their own story of success. From making new friends to leaving with qualifications galore, we love to celebrate every moment of success.
This approach has consistently resulted in outstanding outcomes that set us apart from the sector with 100% of our schools rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted.
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Research Backed Outcomes
A report written by the research group Sonnet (part-owned by Sheffield Hallam University) evidences the life-changing impact that our provisions have on the children and young people placed here.
There is 'drastic difference between what a learner is able to achieve in their life having been supported by the staff and setting in a Witherslack Group'. As opposed to the probable alternatives for young people with such complex needs and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Through the development, study and evaluation of archetypical learners, we calculated the average additional social value from a day school placement is at least £844k*. This average additional value of a placement could be as high as +£870k (if full weight is attributed to best possible outcomes)
The average additional lifetime social value from a placement at Ashbrooke school is at least...
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Advice & Support
We are proud to have supported almost 60,000 parents, carers and professionals at every stage of their SEN journey. Our dedicated support teams are always on hand to help and assist, knowing that we are all working together to create real futures for each and every young person.
Whether families want to find out more about how to get an EHCP, establish a better bedtime routine or discover new sensory activities for their child, we are here to share our expert advice and support. Our range of podcasts, webinars, face-to-face events and resource packs is readily available.
We are committed to supporting 1 millions parents, carers and professionals by 2030. Last year an additional 45,000 parents, carers and professionals accessed our advice and support online hub, we had 15,000 podcast listens and almost 1,000 support calls made to our team of specialists each week.
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Our Stakeholders
We are driven by a commitment to improving the experience and outcomes for all of our stakeholders, based on our in-depth understanding of their needs, which is gained through ongoing and meaningful engagement. Due to the nature of our work, our stakeholders have a unique passion for and connection with what we do and the outcomes we achieve for each and every young person. They are invaluable supporters and critical friends as we strive to deliver more and more for our young people and their families.
Our Young People
We don’t believe that one-size-fits-all. Every child’s journey is different but our unique approach ensures that the outcomes remain the same - inspirational achievements and stunning stories of success for each one of our children and young people.
ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity
We have worked in partnership with the ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity for many years now. They provide invaluable training and support for parents and carers, teachers, social care providers, healthcare workers and employers to enhance knowledge, promote inclusivity, and empower neurodivergent children and young people.
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Johan Cruyff Foundation
We are proud to be an official partner of the Johan Cruyff Foundation, which was set up to support and develop sports activities for children and young people all over the world.
This year we opened another three Cruyff Courts totalling up to 12 Cruyff Courts across our schools with more planned for next year.
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Our Families
We understand that parents and carers want their child to receive the very best education and support, with access to world-class facilities, and staff that constantly go the extra mile. To us there is nothing more rewarding than seeing breakthroughs for young people; everything we do is built around getting the best outcome for our young people and their families.
Our Local Authorities
We work in partnership with 123 local authorities to offer the best provision for young people; 65 of these local authorities have been placing with us for over 10 years. We understand the needs and challenges on an individual basis and are able to adapt and offer our services to ensure that local authorities see us as their provider of choice. We can be very proud of an overall customer satisfaction score of 95%, with 85% stating they would recommend our provision.
Our Employer Partners
We now work with 80 employer partners, including Microsoft, John Lewis, RoadChef and Liverpool FC, to provide outstanding career experiences and opportunities for our children and young people that broaden their horizons and allows them to find their own pathway forward.
Our Wider World
We want to further extend our impact, beyond the students and families that directly access our services across our educational settings. As we look to further develop our environmental, social and governance strategies, we aspire to not only impact the lives of our communities, but also to make long-standing contributions to and impacts on society as a whole as we work to continue to reduce carbon emissions and work towards B-Corp status in 2024.
Our SEN Community
Our wide variety of events, podcasts, helpline and resource packs offer thousands of parents and professionals a unique opportunity to access a range of SEN-specific advice, support and training each week. We are committed to sharing expertise and advice to support both the SEN community and also the wider agenda around neurodiversity and inclusion.
Our Charitable Partners
Our relationships with both our partner organisations and, importantly, our suppliers are critical to us maintaining the highest of standards and support for our students. We work with world-leading charities to ensure we are equipping our teams with the very best understanding and creating inspirational environments.
Johan Cruyff Foundation
We are proud to be an official partner of the Johan Cruyff Foundation, which was set up to support and develop sports activities for children and young people all over the world. Our state-of-the-art Cruyff Courts are all-weather pitches which support small-group sports, including football, basketball, volleyball and netball. We opened up four new Cruyff Courts at Cedar House School, Oversands School, Ashbrooke School and Hartwell School this year offering more of our pupils a place to grow, make friends and improve their mental health.
ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity
We have worked in partnership with the ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity for several years now. They provide invaluable training and support for parents and carers, teachers, social care providers, healthcare workers and employers to enhance knowledge, promote inclusivity, and empower neurodivergent children and young people. We worked in collaboration to develop the ADHD Advanced Practitioner Award and a further 28 advanced practitioners were awarded this meaning, even more highly specialist and individualised ADHD portfolios have been created for our children and young people.
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From 100% attendance to sitting GCSEs, our children and young people confidently told us their proudest achievement. Watch now to hear from our pupils.
We can honestly say joining this school has been life changing for all of us. Our daughter feels seen and heard, which is amazing.
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