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Providing disability support for ordinary living
As a successful disability charity, Seashell Trust is dedicated to providing a creative, happy, and safe environment for children and young people with complex learning difficulties and additional communication needs.
We offer a holistic approach with Seashell’s Royal School Manchester, Royal College Manchester, and our 17 home-from-home care houses to provide a safe, supported environment. Our complex learning difficulties school provides the best facilities and equipment, including sports for people with disabilities, health, and wellbeing. Additionally, our facilities for special needs students provide many different ways for our students to explore their creativity, artistic pursuits, and physicality.
Seashell focuses on the extended family that cares for each one of our students and residents. We understand the difference that can be made to all those connected lives, and that is why we strive to include and support families with disabilities and the wider community in the life experience of children and young people.
Our Admissions Criteria
Seashell educates and supports children and young adults with the most complex disabilities from across the UK. We deliver holistic educational and residential* services from our campus in Cheadle Hulme. We also deliver expert education and support beyond our school and college to individuals, organisations and families from across the country.
Students we welcome to Seashell need to meet our primary admissions criteria and at least one of our secondary criteria.
Our primary admissions criteria for all new students are:
Severe to profound learning disability and complex needs (SLD / PMLD).
Our secondary criteria apply to complex needs relating to at least one of the following:
- Sensory impairment
- Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) and accompanying sensory and behavioural challenges
- Complex physical health needs, including requirement for gastrostomy and tracheostomy*
We specialise in:
- Deafblindness (MSI)
- Severe or profound hearing loss
- Severe or profound vision loss
- Autism and severe to profound learning disabilities
We provide assessment and education for CHARGE and Deafblind (MSI) children and young adults. We give specialist training to the staff teams who support them.
*Students with complex physical health needs (including gastrostomy and tracheostomy) can only be supported at Seashell during school and college hours. Our residential places are not registered to provide nursing support and we cannot offer residential placements to children and young adults with non-delegatable health needs.
Our School
Royal School Manchester is a day and residential, non-maintained special school that offers outstanding provision in supporting people with learning disabilities for students aged from 2-19 years. Our school’s amazing disability services in Manchester involve tailored, specialist education, care and disability support.
Find Out MoreOur College
Royal College Manchester is an independent specialist further education college designed to support young people with complex learning difficulties, disabilities and health needs. Accommodating students aged between 19-25 years, our college offers placements for both day and residential students, offering only the best disability services in Manchester.
Find Out MoreOur Homes
It doesn’t end with education; we also offer residential care for young people with learning disabilities. We have 17 home-from-home, up to four-bedroomed houses for children and young people with complex learning difficulties who need residential support. We can provide 24-hour disability support, weekly and termly boarding, and comprehensive 52-week placements for individuals aged up to 25 years old.
We also offer individual packages of respite care for children and young adults with special needs. Residents can come from anywhere across the UK and do not have to be students at Seashell to enjoy a short break.
Find Out MoreTherapy and Nursing
Providing therapy for learning disabilities, our nursing staff and behaviour support specialists work collaboratively alongside education and residential care teams to ensure all children and young people are supported to achieve their best lives.
Find Out MoreFamily Services
One of our main goals at Seashell is to support families with disabilities. We offer families a comprehensive package of support for ordinary living from day one of their journey with us. We have accommodation on-site so that parents and siblings can stay close and in touch, and there is staff support to ensure the whole family can enjoy quality time together.
Find Out MoreSeashell Active
At Seashell, we believe charities for disabled children should also offer enriching activities to help children discover new hobbies and interests. Our sports, physical activity, and wellbeing teams form a vital part of Seashell, offering a wide range of health, wellbeing and leisure activities for our students, staff, and the wider community. We have a wide range of sports facilities available for use by the local community, including our 3G sports pitch. So, introduce your loved one to sports for people with disabilities today.
Find Out MoreExternal Services
At our disability charity, we offer a comprehensive range of specialist training and disability support for children and young adults aged 4 to 25 and their families, as well as to professionals in the sector, including schools, colleges and other settings locally, regionally and nationally. Our disability services in Greater Manchester help promote the positive inclusion of children and young people with special educational needs and complex learning disabilities across the country.
Nurseries, schools and colleges from across the UK now have the ability to provide more complex learning difficulties support and ultimately improve outcomes for children and young people through more effective early intervention and targeted support for ordinary living.
Find Out MoreOutstanding facilities
View allOutstanding facilities
Audiology clinic
Medical centre
Sensory rooms
Swimming and hydrotherapy pool
Sports hall with climbing wall and fitness suite
3G sports pitch
Creative arts
Visit Seashell
Now that you’ve got a better idea of our complex learning difficulties services and support, come and see for yourself how our disability charity supports people with disabilities! Our amazing team of staff will be more than happy to make you and your family welcome as they show you around our fantastic facilities. Get in touch today to find out more about how Seashell could help to support you and your family. Or get involved when you support local charities, volunteer with special needs or make a donation with Seashell today!
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