Yikes! DS2 has been offered a residential course 2 nights per week at his school. What questions to ask re respite/residential....

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DS2 (13) goes to a fab school. It has a brilliant residential wing and they run life skills courses. DS2 has just been offered two terms with 2 nights per week.
I have just raised it with DH and we are mulling the pros and cons but they want to visit here tomorrow (!) and DH is away.

I want to ask how they will manage his GFCF diet, and can we stop if he gets sad but is there anything else I should ask.
Does anyone do residential or respite?
What issues can crop up?

I have never contemplated DS2 doing this and I am a little flustered
( although that may well be obvious from this wwwaaahhhh post)

ask any questions you think you need to. even if they might sound silly.
dd goes to respite at her school(has done since she was 6 and she is 14 now)
I was amazed as to how ell they coped(they had to make her room dd proof.

No direct experience, I'm afraid but thinking about it, I'd want to know what the benefit was, ie what they were expecting him to learn from this, and by when.

Also I'd want to be sure our goals coincided for the 24 hour curriculum, and how far we could have input into how they did things. Just an example but I'm eg very keen on DD1 getting to bed at a sensible time and nobody going in unless there is something wrong. She picks up bad sleep habits v quickly if you encourage her, and lack of sleep means more seizures. But what if their H&S policy was to go in every time? After 2 weeks it would be a disaster at home for the other 5 days and I don't have someone paid to sit up all night every night, it's just me.

Thank you guys

I will sit down tonight when it is quiet and think of every question ( stupid included ) and get ready for tomorrow.
I have brief details of whatthe course tries to achieve so I will work from that.

Thanks for your replies