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- A Very Special School
- Residential Care | Children and Young People
- Aquamovers
- Holiday Club
- Short Breaks for Children and Young People
- Patchwork Farm
- Hippotherapy and Therapeutic Riding
- Residential Care for Adults | Futures
- Leisure and Skills Centre | LSC
- The Hub
- Patchwork Farm
- Short Breaks for Young Adults
- Leadership Team
- Our NHS Partnership
- Governance
- Policies
- Safeguarding
- The Chailey Charter
- Our History
- Relationship and Sex Education Training
- Discover Magazine
- Annual Reports and Accounts
- Transition: Moving on
- Chailey Heritage Information & Parent/Carer Support
- Jewell Trust Family Liaison Worker
- Onsite Accommodation For Families
- Assistive Technology at the LSC
- Seymour Bonfire Celebrations
- Art with Eleanor 🎨
- Trustees’ Week 4-8 November
- Bluebell Railway Trip
- Jumbo Ensemble celebrations!
- Walker Friends
- Max's South Bath Sessions
- Buddy the therapy dog
- Jumbo Ensemble Thank you - Makaton video
- Jumbo Ensemble - Felicity
- Carers Week 2024
- National Volunteers' Week 2024
- Old Scholars’ Day 2024
- Transition to Adult Services Breakfast Morning
- Chailey Heritage Foundation leads at Linden Lodge School Transition Fair
- Easter Holiday Club 2024
- Chailey Heritage Foundation's Paula Marten on Transition to Adult Services
- Makaton Song - Proud
- Chailey Heritage at Transition to Adult Services Conference
- Partners in Care – how a career with Chailey Heritage changes young lives
- Lunchtime at Chailey Heritage Foundation
- Celebrating Strengths: Raising Awareness of Cerebral Palsy
- Hats galore for Woolly Hat Wednesday
- Exciting New Year’s INSET for Chailey staff – ‘Don’t Call Me Mum’.
- Chailey Heritage Individual Learner Driven (CHILD) Curriculum
- Developing Effective Communication
- Developing Independence Through Powered Mobility
- Becoming a Pupil
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- Becoming a Pupil
Becoming a Pupil
Chailey Heritage School welcomes children and young people from many different local authorities. We provide for those whose needs cannot be met in maintained special and mainstream schools because of their complex needs.
Referrals
When a local authority recognises a child's or young person’s needs will be best met by our expertise and facilities, they will make a referral to us.
Assessments
An 'Admission Assessment' is held over a two day period, helping us to identify in detail your child’s special educational needs and to indicate whether these needs can be met at Chailey Heritage School with support from Chailey Clinical Services.
Admissions
Following the referral and assessment process, if we believe the child will benefit from our skills and facilities, and the child's local authority and Clinical Commissioning Group agree to fund the placement, the child may take up their place at Chailey Heritage School.
Disputes
We continue to have a very good reputation amongst local authorities for being open about our fees and our processes, and we welcome visits from local government officers.
Where a family is in dispute with their local authority, our role is simply to explain what we offer, and to give our opinion on how we would hope to benefit the child.
To arrange an informal visit please contact us here.
Our Pupils' Stories
13-year-old Charlotte is a determined, kind, and thoughtful young person.
Seth Seth is 6 years old and has been at school at Chailey Heritage Foundation since ... James James has been developing his concentration skills by caring for the animals at ... Jacob Jacob is 18 years-old and has been attending Chailey Heritage Foundation si... Bertie Bertie is six years old and started school at Chailey Heritage Foundation in Nov... Harriet Harriet has been developing her communication skills during her visits to Patchw...
