Education other than at School

There is a group or pupils who receive their education outside the mainstream or special school provision. This group includes:

• Pupils with psychiatric difficulties such as school phobia
• Pupils with medical conditions which makes attendance at school difficult/impossible
• Pupils resident in hospital
• Pupils who are pregnant (The majority of the pupils who are pregnant are supported within their own school)
• Pupils with behavioural difficulties excluded from school permanently/for a period of assessment.
• Pre-school pupils attending one of the pre-school assessment clinics based at hospitals in Telford and Shrewsbury

The provisions of education other than at school is the responsibility of the Tuition, Medical and Behaviour Support Service.

Referrals to this service are made by the Pupils Services Manager for Telford and Wrekin. Shropshire LEA also currently places pupils with the TMB service, as part of the joint arrangement for SEN Support Services. (This arrangement is currently being reviewed with the likelihood that each Authority will set up its own Tuition Service.)

Provision is almost exclusively in the Tuition Centres detailed below. Home Tuition is only made available on medical grounds where a pupils is unable to access his/her school, tuition centre or hospital setting.

Tuition Centres in Telford and Wrekin

Admaston House
Aqueduct
Dawley Bank
Randlay
Shawbirch
Chamber House

From September 2001 the Authority proposes to relocate its KS4 provision to New College. This will provide a central hub for KS4 provision from which pupils will be assessed and then placed either on an infill in New College basis or into bespoke provision such as the MOVES projection into other providers such as TCAT and Training Providers. The flexibility of this system will allow for a more individualised programme for pupils and will enable the Authority to achieve its target of 25 how provision for all pupils.

The provision for pupils out of school at KS4 has been supplemented by the EAST Project and the MOVES Project. This has enabled pupils to be re-engaged within the system very quickly and has made provision for small numbers of pupils who have found it very difficult to access formal education.