We hear the term waking day curriculum or 24 hour curriculum used mostly in relation to disabled young people attending a residential placement. It may be one of the reasons you are requesting a residential placement for your young person.
The following are notes created for attendees at a workshop given by Sue Robson, Bright Futures @Ruils, Jonathan Rourke, Richmond and Kingston SENDIASS, and Susie O’Kelly, parent in October 2023.
A list of specialist colleges attended by young people from LB Richmond and RB Kingston. College websites have been linked to provide some basic information about the profile of the young person supported by the college.
This document has information about local colleges that can be accessed on a day basis from LB Richmond. Information has come from the college website and from direct enquiries by email or telephone.
This report offers an opinion on Sophie’s development and support needs, in the context of her reaching the stage of transition to Post19 / further education.
Teresa Jones, Mencap, and Sue Robson delivered a workshop in January 2022, repeating in January 2024, about how to go about researching colleges. This document is drawn from the slides and speaker notes of that workshop.
This is a document written by a parent to discuss what the terms 24 hour curriculum or waking day curriculum mean. These terms and what they mean are especially relevant for parents considering a residential college for their young person’s post 18 or post 19 educational placement.
This page contains links to Achieving for Children (AfC) local offer pages on Post 16 education options for all young people, including young people with a Disability.
We wrote this document to provide some information about the different types of schools – the terms you might hear and what they actually mean as far as how they operate.
This document contains information gleaned from the internet about what is termed ‘school refusal’, which is a complex and often misunderstood situation. The following information is snippets from websites googled for that term.
This is an account from a parent based on her personal experience of the costs involved in a placement.
This is statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and proprietors of academies in England. It was produced in December 2015 and there have been a lack of updates since.