How we Work
We adopt a holistic therapeutic approach towards individual education packages tailored to each student. Each timetable concentrates on providing for academic needs, with an equal emphasis on emotional and social development. We foster a high staff to student ratio to enable a safe containing environment where individuals can process and explore the difficulties that education or socialising in larger groups can evoke. We also have a dedicated pastoral team who offer interventions tailored to each individual student as part of their timetable, overseen by clinicians at our Therapeutic Hub.
Trauma Informed Therapy
In our schools, all staff have access to Reflective Supervision and Debriefs after challenging incidents, and bespoke training which is offered by in-house specialists around current presenting needs. There are also opportunities to discuss more complex presentations for individual students through consultation slots and access to our therapeutic hub duty service 9-5 Monday-Friday. This allows our education staff to understand and manage more complex presentations resulting from experiences of trauma, mental ill health or neuro-diversity.
Specialist Assessments
Any young person presenting with increased complexity will be referred to our clinical hub for a specialist mental health assessment, which includes screening for sensory and speech and language difficulties. This allows us to add too and update the EHCP recommendations as the student and their environment change. This results in a joint formulation between the clinical team and the education team, ideally including the family and young people, to ensure joined up working and to support us in intervening along a neuro-sequentially sensitive pathway, offering the right intervention at the right time.
Intervention
If indicated by assessment, children at Fair Ways can access occupational therapy with a sensory integration trained specialist, speech and language therapy, music therapy, articulate, family therapy, emotional coping skills, psycho-education around neuro-diversity, trauma or other mental health conditions, life story work, dyadic-developmental psychotherapy based intervention, NVR based parenting programmes – this allows us to ensure interventions are high quality and well integrated into all of the above. If other specialist intervention is indicated then we will source it from external providers.
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