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Wings Notts
ACCESS POLICY
Publication Date: September 2018
Reviewed: September 2020
Review date: September 2021
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020Wings Notts School
ACCESS PLAN
Introduction
Under the Equality Act 2010: Schedule 10, and Disability Discrimination Regulations 2005, Kedleston
Schools are committed to increasing access to education for disabled children.
In keeping with this, Wings Notts Access Plan aims to cover three aspects of access for disabled children:
• Increased access to the curriculum for disabled children
• Improvements to the physical environment of the school to increase access to education and
associated services at the school
• Improvements in the provision to disabled children of information that is provided in writing to
children who are not disabled
A disability is defined as where a medical condition lasting longer than twelve months impacts on a child’s
behaviour and ability to learn. Such conditions may be physical ones affecting mobility, manual dexterity,
and incontinence, ability to lift, hearing, eyesight, and risk perception; or there may be mental impairment
resulting in learning difficulties.
Although it is impracticable at present to accommodate children with serious physical disabilities, all
reasonable adaptations will be made wherever possible.
Review of Existing Arrangements
A Review of existing arrangements for access to the curriculum, school design and school information
formats was conducted using the attached Questionnaire (see Appendix 1)
This review was conducted by the Deputy Head of Education and the Head of Care.
The areas identified as needing action, i.e. ‘No’ response were summarised into a statement of current
provision and future plans and were then included in the Access Plan.
The review will be reviewed on a three yearly basis unless a response is required prior to the review date
Access Plan Format
The Access Plan, (see Appendix 2), was produced after the review of our existing arrangements. The Plan
includes identified targets in the short, medium or long term and strategies / action to be used or taken.
Responsible people are identified and a time frame set.
The Senior Leadership Team are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Plan and keeping
the access needs of the School under review. The schools Health and Safety Committee will review and
update the plan annually alongside the SLT and when specific needs of children arise. The setting SLT will
carry out a full review of the Access Plan at intervals not exceeding 3 years.
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020Appendix 1
Wings Notts School
REVIEW OF ACCESSIBILITY ARRANGEMENTS
Date August 2018 REVIEWED: February 2019, February 2020, September 2020
Next Review: September 2021
PERSONS CONDUCTING REVIEW: PRINCIPAL
Section 1: How does your School deliver the curriculum?
Current Prospective
Question Children Children
Yes No Yes No N/A
Do you ensure that Teachers and Learning Support Assistants
have the necessary training to teach and support disabled √ √
children?
Are your classrooms optimally organised for disabled children? √ √
Do lessons provide opportunities for all children to achieve? √ √
Are lessons responsive to children’s diversity? √ √
Do lessons involve work to be done by individuals, pairs, groups
√ √
and the whole class?
Are children encouraged to take part in music, drama and
√ √
physical activities?
Do staff recognise and allow for the mental effort expended by
√ √
some disabled children, for example, using lip reading?
Do staff recognise and allow for the additional time required by
√ √
some disabled children to use equipment in practical work?
Do staff provide alternative ways of giving access to experience or
understanding for disabled children who cannot engage in
√ √
particular activities, for example, some forms of exercise in
physical education?
Do you provide access to computer technology appropriate for
√ √
children with disabilities?
Are School visits, including overseas visits, made accessible to all
√ √
children irrespective of attainment or impairment?
Are there high expectations of all children? √ √
Do staff seek to remove all barriers to learning and participation? √ √
Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020Section 2: Is your School designed to meet the needs of all children?
Current
Prospective Children
Question Children
Yes No N/A Yes No N/A
Does the size and layout of areas – including all academic,
sporting, play, social facilities; classrooms, the assembly hall,
canteen, library, gymnasium and outdoor sporting facilities, √ √
playgrounds, common rooms and residential houses – allow
access for all children?
Can children who use wheelchairs move around the School and
residential houses without experiencing barriers to access such as
√ √
those caused by doorways, steps and stairs, toilet facilities and
showers?
Are pathways of travel around the School site and parking
√ √
arrangements safe, routes logical and well signed?
Are emergency and evacuation systems set up to inform ALL
children, including children with SEN and disability; including √ √
alarms with both visual and auditory components?
Are non-visual guides used to assist people to use buildings,
√ √
including lifts with tactile buttons?
Could any of the décor or signage be considered to be confusing
or disorienting for disabled children with visual impairment, √ √
autism or epilepsy?
Are areas to which children should have access well lit? √ √
Are steps made to reduce background noise for hearing impaired
children, such as considering a room’s acoustics, noisy √ √
equipment?
Is furniture and equipment selected, adjusted and located
√ √
appropriately?
Section 3: How does your School deliver materials in other formats?
Current Prospective
Question Children Children
Yes No N/A Yes No N/A
Do you provide information in simple language, symbols, large
print, on audiotape or in Braille, for children and prospective
√ √
children who may have difficulty with standard forms of printed
information?
Do you ensure that information is presented to groups in a way
which is user friendly for people with disabilities, e.g. by reading √ √
aloud, overhead projections and describing diagrams?
Do you have facilities, such as ICT, to produce written information
√ √
in different formats?
Do you ensure that staff are familiar with technology and practices
√ √
developed to assist people with disabilities?
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020Summary of current provision for Young Persons with disabilities:
With regard to the current provision of young people – see extract from Statement of Purpose below.
All our children have identified social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. They may also have learning
difficulties such as autistic spectrum disorders including Asperger’s Syndrome, Attention Deficit Disorder,
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, moderate learning difficulties and other specific
learning difficulties. From September 2016, Wings School have enrolled 2 pupils with significant medical
needs, Epilepsy and Type 1 Diabetes. Several key staff within school and care have attended specific
administration of medication and awareness training by health professionals for Epilepsy and Diabetes.
Although Wings Notts has disabled parking and toilet areas along with a number of ramps to aid access to
specific areas, it is impracticable at present to accommodate children with serious physical disabilities,
although reasonable adaptations will be made wherever possible in line with the SEN and Disability Act 2001.
We do not, at present, have the specialist teaching to meet the needs of pupils for whom English is an
additional language but consideration would be made if the need arose.
• 1:1 provision
• Personalised curriculum
• Individual and bespoke timetables
• Small groups
• Staff expertise and experience in a range of challenging behaviours and moderate learning difficulties
• Qualified SENCO
• Dedicated Keyworker
• Staff accompany/walk young people to education
• Allocated staff for regular support
• Therapeutic intervention e.g. expressive arts therapy
• Range of intervention strategies employed by dedicated Learning Engagement staff member
• On-going challenging behaviour training
• Daily de-briefings on individual children
• Daily handover meetings
• Personalised target setting – academic and behavioural
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020Appendix 2
ACCESS PLAN
PROVISION INFORMATION
Person(s)
Targets Strategies / Actions Time Frame
Responsible
Principal
Education and Care to work
• To instil in the children about smartness when Head of Education
Short Term together with regard to March 2020
attending school House Managers
uniform to school
Care Management
To develop a third working • To enable NVQ Assessor to be able to induct Maintenance Team
Medium Term September 2020
area/meeting room staff and discuss training etc. Principal
• To ensure the staff infrastructure is planned for
an increase of over 30 pupils
To facilitate an increase in
Long Term • Currently recruitment drive is underway to Principal Ongoing
pupil numbers
ensure effective staff is in place.
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020ACCESS PLAN
CURRICULUM
Person
Targets Strategies / Actions Time Frame
Responsible
To ensure the transition
• A minimum of other options for key stage 4
process is included in the Principal
Short Term children to access different activities including Ongoing
curriculum offer to engage Head of Education
work on transitioning to college from Wings
the children
• A wider choice of vocational subjects to be
Principal
included on the timetable. Available but not
Short to Medium To further develop the Head of Education
fully implemented due to recruitment issues. Ongoing
Term vocational offer Maintenance Team
• Introduction to Thorsby Park. To develop this
D of E Coordinator
facility for the children to access
• Business case presented to Principal for
infrastructure development allowing for ASD
pupils to access the school
• Current placements have increased pupil
Principal
numbers without the need to deliver this
To expand capacity to Head of Education
Long Term service at the moment. To be looked at in the Ongoing
intake ASD pupils Registered
future.
Manager
• Links to be made with West Notts College for
transition of students.
• Post 16 facility and options to be discussed and
looked into
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Wings School Notts Access Plan September 2018. Reviewed September 2020ACCESS PLAN
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Person
Targets Strategies / Actions Time Frame
Responsible
• Car Park to be extended and more spaces made
Principal
Short Term Sports Hall available. September 2020
Maintenance Team
• Car Park spaces to be marked out accurately
Registered
Upgrade and landscape
• Take into account future building projects – Manager
Medium Term courtyard of AB1 July 2020
residential and school Principal
Maintenance Team
• Take into account for future building projects –
residential and school
Provide alarms with visual Principal
Long Term • sports Hall re development completed however a Ongoing
components Maintenance Team
new floor is needed due to uneven floor
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