Redwood House

Redwood House is a specialist centre for young people with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD) aged 19 to 25.

Redwood House enables young people to continue to develop their life and living skills after leaving school. Redwood House is open for 51/52 weeks a year and offers a warm and friendly environment in which young people can learn and thrive.

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How we help

Redwood House can design a range of residential and learning packages for young people as they move from school to adult life, including day placements for young people who access local residential provision or live with family, or residential accommodation for young people who attend local college placements.

Our facilities allow young people to continue therapeutic services, and access appropriate medical care and transition services. We provide a professional service based on a fully adapted environment, and have trained and dedicated staff who work to meet young people's individual needs and equip them for adult life.

• Life and living skills: An outstanding specialist centre for young adults with diverse profound and complex needs, Redwood House enables young people to continue to develop their life and living skills after leaving school. We offer an exciting, motivating, challenging, supportive and inclusive environment within which young people can enjoy life and enhance their independence skills, both now and for the future. Read about our student's achievements.
• Facilities: As part of our life and living skills programme, students can learn across the campus in a variety of specialist rooms and facilities, residential settings, and in the local and wider community. To take account of the cognitive and sensory challenges to learning that many of the young people face, the life and living skills programme is primarily delivered through sensory routes to maximise access, inclusion, engagement and attainment.
• Residential care: All residential areas have an emergency call system, overhead tracking hoists, large bathrooms with adjustable baths, bedrooms with fully adjustable beds and fully equipped communal areas. As part of inclusive practice, our young people decide on the décor and furnishing for their room and also contribute to decisions about the appearance of the communal areas.

Facilities

Education and therapeutic facilities includes:

• a swimming/hydrotherapy pool
• a physiotherapy hall
• therapeutic and medical treatment facilities, including a £1.2 million therapy suite
• a multi-sensory studio with Spacekraft lighting
• onsite cinema
• two white rooms to encourage sensory interaction and provide a calm environment
• two sensory gardens, one with shade sails, sensory lighting and water features
• a new creative arts studio

Contact details

Principal: Derek Lyseight-Jones
Phone: 01608 647559 / 01608 647020
Email: redwood.house@actionforchildren.org.uk
Post: Action for Children Redwood House, New Street, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7 5LN