Treloar Trust

The Treloar Trust provides education, care and independence training for 320 young people (aged 5-25) with disabilities from all over the UK. At Treloar School and Treloar College in Hampshire the Trust offers physically disabled young people from all over the UK, some of whom also have communication or learning difficulties, the following facilities.

• Full access to the National Curriculum, or other courses as appropriate.
• A broad range of academic and vocational courses.
• Life-skills and pre-vocational courses.
• A rich and varied extended curriculum, utilising excellent sports and social facilities.
• Health centres with 24 hour nursing care at both sites, Physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and rehabilitation engineers work with teaching and care staff to develop individual programmes for each student..
• Careers advice and work placement opportunities.

Special arrangements are available for young people with acquired brain injury. Often after hospital treatment there is a requirement for rehabilitation before a student returns home and, it is hoped, to their local school. Treloar's has experience and facilities to offer short-term (minimum one year) placements to work with such students towards agreed objectives.

Students at Treloar's are normally funded by their Local Education Authority or the Learning & Skills Council, sometimes in partnership with the Health Authority or Social Services. The Trust relies on donations for equipment and refurbishment and is currently fundraising for new facilities and technology. Contact the Trust for further details.

 
Checked: January 2007