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Children aged from five to 13 with severe behavioural problems and emotional and mental health difficulties are referred to Oxfordshire-based The Mulberry Bush School, by local authorities across England and Wales. To complement the Level 5 training for all staff - the Foundation Degree in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People - the specialist residential school provider has in recent years adopted Team Teach as the model of de-escalation and physical intervention.
The Mulberry Bush director John Turberville says children are often referred after local authorities have exhausted all other options for how to best deal with them.
"They may have been excluded from school, sent to a pupil referral unit or be out of education altogether," he explains. "They may have displayed inappropriate behaviour in school, been violent, started fires. The behaviour they display usually creates high levels of anxiety in others, but we see it as a communication of unmet needs."
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