Alternative Education
We offer 2 main types of placements for students:
One to One Placements
(2 hours)
Small Group Placements
(5 hours)
Any Student
Welcome
Placements are welcome from any setting and for any purpose
Placement Information
Placements offer focused work to support:
• Young people that require support around their social, emotional and mental health needs, with the outcome to develop the key areas that are proving a barrier to thriving at school
• Young people to meet specific outcomes identified within their EHCP.
• Young people who are struggling with attendance. Working with them to build resilience, self-confidence, bridge gaps and to develop positive trusting relationships with key adults within the school.
• Young people who are looked after. Through trusted relationships helping these young people to meet their PEP targets.
• Young people that may be temporarily out of education, supporting transition work between provisions, ensuring these young people continue to feel safe and seen during these gaps.
• Youth work support within schools to offer targeted work such as keep safe work & PSHE.
What We Offer
Placements with Partnership Schools, Private Sector Education provision to offer an offsite programme placement
We are able to deliver a maximum of 2.5 days per week provision to students.
Our timetable operates to the Somerset Council Academic Calendar.
All student placements are charged at £180+VAT per student per day.
Tailored to Each Student
All our work is tailored to the individual needs of students. We do not have fixed programmes, students get to create programme content with their youth workers.
Every session can include cooking of hot healthy food, life skills, support and access to our REACH bases and off site activities. Referrals can be taken by email and can commence within 1 week if required.
Youth worker attendance at meetings, additional reports, multi-agency working is not chargeable and therefore comes as part of a placement purchase.
Transport Provided
If a group of 3 students are referred together as a working group from a school then we will come in and collect/provide return transport and carry out in school handovers. Transport is also provided for all one to one sessions. This reduces the schools requirement to fund transport.
Matching
All students are interviewed prior to joining and have an induction session before commencing any group. Students are matched for suitability to work together, therefore allocations of day require negotiation to ensure we put the correct matching of students to work together in teams.
Support for Healthy Development
We do not deliver reward or punishment, nor do we exclude students.
Youth workers fully support, encourage learning, observe and help assess, where students are at, and how we can help them along to learn and meet the objectives set at the start.
A day at REACH
See below two examples of a typical day at REACH both group and individual. For the individual day you can choose from a morning or afternoon session. All timings are approximate and may vary with notice.
Afternoon Session
12:30 AM (negotiable)
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Collection of student from school / home / placement
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Delivery of 2hr session. All sessions include food, travel, activity and challenges set.
2:30 AM (negotiable)
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Drop off of student to school / home / placement with handover
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Staff to write up report for submitting back to school / placement
One to One Day
Morning Session
9:30 AM (negotiable)
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Collection of student from school / home / placement
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Delivery of 2hr session. All sessions include food, travel, activity and challenges set.
11:30 AM (negotiable)
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Drop off of student to school / home / placement with handover
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Staff to write up report for submitting back to school / placement