The Vision For Our Future Moving Forward 2 1 Welcome to Seashell We believe Seashell is an extraordinary place for extraordinary people. Our students and residents have incredibly challenging needs and they and their families are some of the most inspiring people you can ever meet. We have an amazing team who provide assessment, education, care and support for children and young people from across the UK who come to Seashell. Seashell helps children and young people with very community and people from across the Northwest complex needs, and their families, live their best lives. who come to use our excellent sports facilities. In the past year more than 6000 people benefitted We do not say this lightly, and it is a challenging from our services and fully inclusive facilities. This undertaking. includes training and events to help support families We need the best team, the best facilities, the best of additional needs children and our award-winning campus and the best technologies to deliver Children’s Able and Disabled Sports programme everything we can for all of our students and residents. (CADS) which brings together disabled and non- This takes commitment, funding and vision. disabled young people to try a range of sports. As a society we have a duty to care for our most vulnerable This vision of our future sets out our commitment to and give them the very best lives possible. our children and young people, their families, our staff and the community, and provides a blueprint for our We continue to deliver education, health, care and plans for the next one, two and five years as we strive support with compassion and creativity and as an to create a national centre of excellence. We will push organisation, we continue to innovate and place forward some of the innovations we believe will help to ourselves at the front of advances in the approaches to transform the lives of children and young people with special needs provision. We are focused on very complex needs. helping our young people to play a significant role We have already achieved so much, and the past ten in their families and our years have seen the Seashell story continue to evolve. communities and I am In 2015 we opened the Sir Norman Stoller Way, a grateful for your Contents community of 17 home-from-home, four bedroomed continued support houses to offer residential care for our students and as we forge ahead residents. We’ve launched the ‘Transforming Lives’ to an even Welcome from Jolanta McCall, Chief Executive and Principal 1 appeal to help fund the advances that will help brighter future. support them and drive best practice in the special Seashell: An Extraordinary Place for Extraordinary People 2 educational needs community. In 2020 we started work on a new school and campus which will see Our plans for the future: Project Transformation 4 more than £50 million invested in new facilities here What Matters: Our Strategic Priorities 6 at Seashell. The Seashell Story 8 We believe in delivering the best for our Seashell community and that doesn’t stop at the gates of our Jolanta McCall Our Services 10 Ofsted-outstanding school, specialist college and Chief Executive residential homes. It also includes our wider local and Principal Working at Seashell 13 Our Stories 14 2 3 Seashell: An Extraordinary Place To deliver the very best for Extraordinary People assessment, education, care and support we must have a strong set of values at the Seashell helps children and young people with very complex needs, and heart of everything we do. their families, live their best lives. It’s a simple pledge but it takes an army of committed They are: professionals, the best facilities and technology and a genuine understanding of the different needs of every student and resident and their family, to make it happen. Seashell offers a holistic approach with Seashell Royal Integrity School Manchester, Seashell Royal College Manchester, Honesty, trust and commitment go to the heart of our 17 home-from-home care houses and our sports everything we do at Seashell. We pride ourselves and wellbeing offering. It allows our children and young on ethical working and strong leadership. We people to access the full range of services they need, all respect our children and young people, their on our one site in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport. We also offer families and our colleagues and we promise support for families through events and remote support, to do our very best, every day, to support the training and consultancy to education settings to help extraordinary people in our care. improve their understanding and provision in special educational needs. 2020 saw us secure planning consent and start work on Seashell’s new school and campus. Over the coming five Innovation years we will be transforming the facilities for our children Our children and young people are exceptional, and young people and the wider community with a £50 and we are constantly striving for pioneering million investment. new approaches, research and advances in Seashell has never just been about the students attending both technology and different ways of caring, our school and college or education services or the young communicating and educating. We believe that people staying in our residential care homes. It’s about the amazing people deserve amazing support. whole extended family that cares for that individual and making a difference to all those connected lives. We strive to include them and the wider community in the whole life experience of our children and young people. Involvement Our measures of success are achieved through many We pride ourselves on developing strong small advances that can make a world of difference to a partnerships with our children, young people and person and their whole family. It can be learning to ask for families to provide the very best support and life a drink through signing that reduces frustration or upset outcomes. By working together and harnessing the or lessens anxiety and aids better communication and best care and support, technology and knowledge relationships with others. Seashell is about extraordinary we can help people live their very best lives. people achieving extraordinary results. 4 5 Project Transformation Seashell’s Project Transformation is an exciting plan to develop a new school and campus that will provide the facilities that our students and residents need now, and for the future. Some of our existing buildings date back to the 1950s It’s an aspirational plan which is expected to take more and are tired and unfit for the needs of today’s students than five years to complete and will cost over £50 million and residents. Over the past decade we have worked to build. Some of that money is coming from the sale of hard to start to improve the site with 17 new residential surplus land but much still needs to be raised through homes and a new, all-weather sports pitch but more fundraising activities, donations and sponsorship from needs to be done. In 2020, after a period of detailed individual donors, businesses and the community. consultation and an application to Stockport Council and the planning inspectorate, Seashell was granted Over the coming months you will see the fundraising The New Campus consent for the development of the new school activity gather pace as the project starts to take and campus. shape. The plan is for building work to start in 2021 and the project has been carefully phased to have as This ambitious project, which is one of the largest of little impact on the children, young people and staff The new campus has been carefully designed from first principles. A key its kind in the UK, includes the construction of a new at Seashell as possible. The opening of the different consideration has been to ensure the safety of students and residents Seashell Royal School Manchester with integrated elements of the new campus will be staged over the swimming, hydrotherapy and refectory facilities. coming five years and we expect students to start to whilst they access the facilities and the campus design includes a clear Seashell Royal College Manchester will also see major benefit from the project very soon. zoning strategy with the creation of distinctive education, residential, sport/ improvements to boost capacity and the quality of the buildings, and there will be improved and extended community and administration/training areas. training, sports, leisure, community engagement and recreational facilities. We will also add new family assessment centres and a new cycle track. The new campus will include a new, modern Seashell to co-locate all the Trust’s administration, training, Royal School Manchester, incorporating swimming, conference, and community facilities. hydrotherapy and refectory facilities to be shared with Seashell Royal College Manchester. There will be two family assessment units built on the The work will be carried out in a series of phases over the site where children and young people can be assessed following timeframes: Also included within the plans is a new single storey and supported in a home-from-home environment by reception building and the entrance to Seashell will professionals from a wide range of disciplines. be widened and improved to make it easier to get Development of new all-weather sports pitch Delivered in 2018/19 in and out of the site and to make the campus more Parking and access on the site will be improved with welcoming. the creation of a new car park for up to 300 cars and New Royal School Manchester and shared facilities building Expected Autumn 2022 new drop-off area for up to 47 cars and 10 minibuses There will be a new cycle track and single storey, four- to serve the school and college buildings.