Specialist Colleges for young people with learning difficulties

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I wonder whether people might be prepared to tell me what provision they are getting atm for their children who are in further education colleges 19+ who have learning difficulites? Are they having a part time placement due to covid? Would really appreciate seeing how other colleges are managing risk etc. Am Mum to a 20 year old with SLD. Many Thanks

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@CheddarHeader I can’t help but didn’t want to leave your thread unresponded to.

There is a special needs board which might yield some results.

@CheddarHeader My son is 17 and at a specialist college. By placement do you mean work placement? My sons course is farm based and he's not leaving the site at the moment. Not sure if that is what you mean.

I work across a number of specialist colleges. I don't think there is a straightforward answer. Each student has their own COVID risk assessment and the provision they receive varies depending on that.

Day students going back to families etc each day or at weekends are e.g in theory riskier than students on 52 or 38 week residential placements. Whether they can safely distanced on transport to and from college has an impact.

The students understanding of and ability to socially distance can have an impact, as can how clinically vulnerable the student it. The set up of the college and how possible it has been for the college to put COVID measures in place to allow x amount of people to be there at anytime is the main difference between what the colleges have offered.

So I don't think it round be possible to gauge if you are getting a fair/bad deal in comparison to others as there's so many factors involved.

Thanks Mustard and Alice, meant a full time in college placement.
Hatgirl, that was really helpful thank you and really clarified some details that I would have loved to heard from his college, but haven't.
It's so tricky atm, I get that, frustrating for everyone, staff, students and parents. Hopefully after Xmas we will know more. Thanks again.