Welcome to Our Place Short Break’s Provision!
Our Place Short Breaks provision provides Herefordshire children and young people aged 10-18 years a safe and exciting environment to enjoy a range of activities and planned events during School Holidays and Weekends.
Our Place Short Breaks provision is a service for young people of mixed gender with special educational needs and Learning Disabilities (including Autistic Spectrum Conditions) and associated challenging behaviours. All children and young people that attend Our short break service have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP) in place.
We aim to provide a holistic, progressive, individually bespoke and creative short break service which has children and young people’s wellbeing at the centre of all we do.
At Our Place Short Breaks we pride ourselves on the fact that each person that attends the provision is provided with the individual experience and the offered activities are representative of this. We aim for our sessions to be inclusive of all needs and the flexibility of our approach consistently helps us in the achievement of positive outcomes.
We understand at Our provision that we will be acting within the wider network of professionals associated with a child/ young person’s life. We will openly work collaboratively with all professionals that have input to the individuals’ life and work to implement consistent strategies and approaches across the board. Information of all professionals involved will be available within the Short Breaks Care Plan as required by the ‘Short Breaks Statutory guidance on how to safeguard and promote the welfare of disabled children using short breaks.’
A percentage of the young people that attend Our Place Shortbreaks will be eligible for our new Duke of Edinburgh award Scheme. We are teaming up with the DofE to ensure that more young people with Sen have the opportunity to take part in this programme. We have a dedicated DofE coordinator for the programme and we will be working towards obtaining the Bronze award certification.
Ian
Short Breaks Manager
Ian has held the position of Deputy Manager for the last 2 years at Our Place Short Breaks and worked within the wider organisation for over 5 years. Ian has previous experience working within various care and SEN education settings. Ian is always instrumental in creating new and exciting activities and experiences for the young people at Short Breaks to enjoy both onsite and offsite (DofE included!)
Jacob
Duke of Edinburgh
Jacob has always had a passion for inclusive sport and outdoor activities! Jacob has worked in various outdoors activity centres and specialises in making these activities accessible for all.
At Our Place Short Breaks we are extremely pleased to offer the Bronze DofE award to all of the young people who qualify for the scheme (year 8 and above) and Jacob along with our other instructors are excited to support young people achieve what they didn’t think was possible.
Jacob also has an experienced background within the care sector and is knowledgeable on how to support young people with special educational needs.
