Young Person – Overview Preparing for Adulthood - Post 16 Provision for Young People with a Special Educational Need And/Or Disability (SEND)
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Young Person – Overview Preparing for Adulthood - Post 16 Provision for Young People with a Special Educational Need and/or Disability (SEND) Education Employment & Training Financial Support Social Care & Health Support Services Special Schools/Colleges Mainstream Job Centre Disabled Students Allowances Supported Living Services KIDS – SENDIASS Schools/Colleges National Careers Service (DSAs) Support and Enablement Connexions Apprenticeships Access to Work Grant Short breaks Barnardos – Advocacy Highfield School Wakefield College Shared lives Training Providers Employment and Support Early Helps Hubs Oakfield Park New College Pontefract Day opportunities Social Enterprise work – WMDC Allowance (ESA) VoiceAbility – Advocacy Pennine Camphill Horizon Centre Connexions Personal Independence Carers Wakefield and District Community Crofton Academy Sixth Assistive technology Payment (PIP) Adaptations Service and DIAL Form Other Employment Support Universal Credit Integrated Community Youth Work Team - WF Youth Airedale Academy Sixth Services Equipment Store (ICES) Form - Richmond Advocacy Castleford Sixth Form Fellowship/Mencap Sensory Impairment Team De Lacy Academy Post Safer places - Shaw Trust 16 - Shine Charity Hemsworth Academy Post 16 In-Work Support Minsthorpe Community - Unison College Post 16 - WANDS Ossett Sixth Form Outwood Grange Post 16 St. Wilfrid’s Sixth Form Other further education colleges Please turn over for further breakdown and information of provision For more information on services and for the most up to date information please visit Wakefield’s Local Offer - http://wakefield.mylocaloffer.org Education Special Schools/Colleges Mainstream Schools/Colleges Highfield School Oakfield Park Pennine Camphill Wakefield College New College Pontefract Mainstream Sixth 01924 302980 01977 613423 Community 01924 789585 01977 702139 Forms [email protected] [email protected] 01924 255281 [email protected] [email protected] Gawthorpe Lane, Ossett WF5 9BS Barnsley Road, Ackworth, Pontefract, Park Lane, Pontefract, WF8 4QR [email protected] Margaret Street, Wakefield, WF1 2DH WF7 7DT Wood Lane, Chapelthorpe, Airedale Academy Sixth Form Caters for students with SLD and Cater for a mix of abilities and needs. Wakefield, WF4 3JL Offers discrete courses for young Castleford Sixth Form Autistic Spectrum Disorder, with Caters for students with Autistic people with SEND and also courses Cater for students from intermediate De Lacy Academy Post 16 Specialist status in Cognition and Spectrum Disorder or Complex, level (level 2). Independent Specialist College for in mainstream education from Entry Hemsworth Academy Post 16 Learning. Newly built dedicated Severe or Profound and Multiple young people with a moderate to 3 through to Higher Education. Eligibility is based on academic Minsthorpe Community College Post resource centre within secure Learning Difficulties. As well as SEN provision for Children and Young severe and complex learning potential, and students are provided 16 and extensive grounds. students with additional needs such Adults from the age of 16 to 24 is as disability. with quality information, advice and Ossett Sixth Form Full time 3 year programme to as HI, VI or complex physical needs. follows: guidance once they have made their Preparing for Adulthood is key FLEX Life Skills: A 5 days per week Outwood Grange Post 16 students aged 16 to19 who have Our pathways in Post 16 facilitate application to college. theme - develop skills for the next provision that has no educational St. Wilfrid’s Sixth Form an EHCP. flexible learning at an appropriate stages of their lives. entry requirements apart from a full Post 16 students follow a holistic level and pace and include a range of Learning takes place through hands commitment to the course and Other further education colleges individual learning programme experiences such as: offsite learning, attendance at 90%. on learning - Craft Hub, Land Based with literacy, language and residential visits, links and learning FLEX Access to Independence: A 3 Learning, Life in the Community and numeracy skills embedded into a with mainstream partners, social and days a week provision that has no Volunteering. For contact details please visit: curriculum that supports broader recreational studies, after school educational entry requirements Full residential and weekly boarding http://wakefield.mylocaloffer.org/young- learning goals that are concerned clubs and outdoor learning. apart from a full commitment to the options. course and attendance of 90%. adults-education with life and work. Students work across a range of Site covers 58-acres, including FLEX Vocational Options, Tasters and Flexible education offers both areas in addition to the National farmland and horse riding facilities. Employability (VOTE): A 3 days a accredited and non-accredited Curriculum including: Creative Art, week provision that has no Social and independent-living skills learning opportunities. Design, Technology and Enterprise, educational entry requirements and work-related skills, including Students work and learn both accessing and using community apart from a full commitment to the transferable skills. onsite and off-site in the local facilities, Sport, PE and Outdoor course and attendance of 90%. FLEX VOTE will help develop skills to community. Education, Horticulture, Food Supported Employment Programme progress onto a Level 1 vocational Preparation, PSHE and Self Enterprise activities to develop course.. Awareness – A.C.E employability skills and work Ready Get SET: A 3 to 4 days a week experience programme. Post 16 students show progress provision that has no educational Forest School and also offer an through improved communication, entry requirements apart from a full extensive enrichment increased responsibility and greater commitment to being involved with programme that includes: art, independence while gaining work experience placements and attendance of 90%. textiles, hair and beauty, music, accreditation through ASDAN and/or BTEC Mainstream courses: Young people sport, cooking, drama, modelling. with the appropriate entry criteria can access all the courses on the Supported Employment Wakefield College Prospectus. Crofton Sixth Form Programme – Project Search Service works with a variety of agencies to ensure the best, 01924 862985 personalised learning environment. [email protected] Support staffing includes: High Street, Crofton, Wakefield WF4 1NF - ALS Co-ordinators - Speech and Language Therapist Building facilities include a lift and disabled - Exam Access Arrangement Assistants access toilets. - Deaf Trainer & BSL Interpreters - Communication Support Workers In partnership with Wakefield College - Study Coaches & Pastoral Officers means that the resources and structures - Education Support Supervisors afforded to SEND students also. - Specialist Learning Support Assistants - Learning Support Assistants Financial Support Disabled Students' Access to Work Grant Employment and Support Personal Independence Universal Credit Allowances (DSAs) Allowance (ESA) Payment (PIP) Tel: 0345 268 8489 Tel: 0345 600 0723 Tel: 0300 100 0607 Tel: 0800 055 6688 Tel: 0345 850 3322 No set amount for an The amount of Universal Access to Work grant. For ill or disabled Personal Independence Credit you’ll get Disabled Students' How much you get Employment and Payment (PIP) helps depends on your circumstances and your Allowances (DSAs) are depends on your Support Allowance (ESA) with some of the extra circumstances. income. It can include paid on top of other offers: costs caused by long- support: AWG can pay for things student finance. - financial support if term ill-health or a - for housing like: Help pay extra costs you're unable to disability if you're aged - for children and - adaptations to the because of disability. work 16 to 64. childcare equipment you use They don't have to be - personalised help Could get between - if you’re disabled or - special equipment have a health repaid. so that you can £21.55 and £138.05 a - fares to work if you condition work if you're able week. Amount depends on can't use public - if you care for to individual needs - not transport Rate depends on how somebody with a household income. - a support worker or You can apply for ESA if condition affects the disability Part-time students job coach to help you you're employed, self- person, not the No limits to the number 'course intensity' can in your workplace employed or condition itself. of hours you can work a week if you get affect how much they - a support service if unemployed. Assessment to work out Universal Credit. get. you have a mental How much ESA you get the level of help. Payment will reduce health condition and depends on: gradually as you earn you're absent from - Your circumstances, more. You won’t lose all work or finding it e.g. income your benefits at once if difficult to work - the type of ESA you you’re on a low income. - disability awareness qualify for training for your - where you are in colleagues the assessment - a communicator at a process job interview - the cost of moving your equipment if you change location or job Social Care Supported Living Day Opportunities Adaptations Service and Integrated Community Equipment Store 01924 302680 01977 619635 01977 722220 [email protected] 58 Wakefield