Admissions

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We welcome enquiries from families and local authorities. Mere Valley School is preparing for registration; opening and placements depend on registration and an assessment of each learner’s needs.

Email info@merevalley.com with your contact details and a brief outline of your enquiry.

Please request a secure route before sending EHCPs, medical reports or other sensitive records.

The learner journey brings together referral, assessment, induction, an individual learning plan and ongoing review.

Discuss the learner’s broad needs, our provision and the next steps. An enquiry is not an offer of a place.

Share the EHCP and relevant education, care and health information through an agreed secure route.

We consider communication, sensory needs, learning, wellbeing and safety, alongside the environment, staffing and specialist support required. A diagnosis alone does not determine suitability; reasonable adjustments and the learner’s views are part of the assessment.

Arrange an appropriate opportunity for the learner and family to explore the setting and share their views.

Receive the outcome and any conditions, including local authority commissioning and funding arrangements where relevant.

Agree visits, communication support, routines, transport responsibilities and information sharing.

Set individual targets and an early review plan with the family and placing authority.

Our planning model brings together universal, targeted and specialist support. Each learner’s provision is assessed and agreed individually.

Families and commissioners receive the school information, relevant policies and written placement details, including fees, support and start arrangements. Opening and placements remain subject to registration.