TAO Activities

We provide vocational awards in first aid and food hygiene, and we develop skills around bike mechanics.

We do focus heavily on the social and emotional development of young people, in all sessions, with nurturing principles underpinning all of our work. We especially excel in helping pupils with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH), autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), and pathological demand avoidance (PDA), with a very high track record of success.

We provide a four phased intervention to help meet learners needs, this is described later. We offer places from 8 years old through to 18 years old. Our group sizes are a maximum of 3 pupils to 2 staff, often due to need, this is 1 pupil to 2 staff.

We can offer places that are privately funded, or alternatively those with an Education, Health & Care Plan (EHCP) can be referred via the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Assessment & Commissioning Team (SENDACT). Each transition is individual to the pupil as all their needs are so varied, we offer transition as a bespoke package.

Our ethos is to be as child centred as possible, to help push comfort zones of the individual to help the pupil contribute as a responsible British citizen, this is further underpinned by nurture group principles. Our staff pick the pupil up from the door or a mutually agreed location, this means twice a day parents have chance to have a face to face discussion with staff. We also attend review meetings with parents at the start, middle, and end of placement.

Our offer includes individualised recording and monitoring using generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and emotional intelligence (EI) scores, an individualised risk assessment, strategies to use and avoid, and an action plan. We offer awards all outdoor activities (climbing, walking, caving, biking, canoeing, bushcraft) in addition to vocational awards in the manual handling, food hygiene, fire safety, first aid at work, health and safety in the work place, and have access to other more individual awards in applicable.

We also include transport, food, equipment.

Currently unknown as we work across the whole authority

Term time only 8.30am-2.30pm.  We can provide further sessions during the holidays, but these are reviewed case by case.

This is an extract from our policy, the full policy can be provided upon request

"To make a complaint about TAO Activities you can contact in the first instance the Manager, Danny Giblin at Dannygiblin@hotmail.com. If your complaint is not dealt with in line with our complaints process below you can contact Ofsted on 0300 123 1231, or the local authority on the switchboard.

We are committed to providing the best care we can for the young people who are under our care, and we want them to feel safe and well looked after. We believe it is important that young people are able to talk freely about their care and to complain if they are unhappy about anything while on session. TAO Activities has a Complaints Policy (in which all tutors will receive training) which is provided to each young person on their arrival and which their key worker explains at an early stage of their placement."

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