St Piers School, Young Epilepsy centre, Surrey – residential care
inspection – February 2014
Any setting that receives an "outstanding" Ofsted judgment is expected to have high-quality facilities, and St Piers School, the special school run by Young Epilepsy, is certainly no exception. Across the school's vast site in Surrey sits a hydrotherapy pool, gym, farm and a pond for kayaking.
But when you look after young people with epilepsy and often other health needs such as autism, facilities alone cannot get you an outstanding rating - something the school's residential houses have just achieved.
"We always aimed for outstanding," says house manager Jay Shekleton. But it was the absence of any recommendations on how they could make things even better that pleased him most. "They didn't even have things they thought we had to improve on," he adds.
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