Brunel Academies Trust

BASIS - Brunel access support and improvement service

About BASIS

The Brunel Access Support and Inclusion Service - known as BASIS – is proudly part of the Brunel Academies Trust in Swindon.

We offer a wide range of services and specialist staff to meet the needs of children and young people with additional needs - primarily including those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), along with Social Communication and Interaction Disorders (SCID).

BASIS support schools, professionals, parents and families, as well as working directly with children and young people.

Currently our BASIS offer includes:

  • ARC (Aspire, Restore, Celebrate)
  • Swindon Autism Support Service
  • Specialist Outreach
  • BASIS Training & Consultancy

ARC

ARC offers an enhanced programme of social communication support including sensory and emotional regulation/understanding with a child centred holistic approach delivered by an experienced team of ARC staff for Children and Young People (CYP) between the ages of 4 and 19. These will be CYP with a need for support around Social Communication and Interaction Difficulties (SCID), who may or may not have a diagnosis. The CYP may be on a reduced timetable or undergoing gradual integration/re-integration to school. The CYP may find accessing or functioning in mainstream/neuro-typical lessons tricky or are perhaps at risk of exclusion. Our aim is to support schools in the ability to meet the CYP’s needs and positively work on maintaining a successful learning placement.

Swindon Autism Support Service

Swindon Autism Support Service, commissioned by Swindon Borough Council,  provides advice and support for schools through a referral system. Advisory Teachers and the School Response Team work with schools and offer:

  • Telephone advice pre-referral
  • Attend EYs drop ins to support the EYs workforce
  • Support information gathering/observation following a referral of an individual CYP over 3 years old - providing a view/snapshot
  • Produce reports for setting advice, graduated response, TACs and Annual Reviews, EHCP contributions as well as advice for referrals to NDC – Neurodevelopmental Pathway and signposting to other agencies.

Specialist Outreach

Specialist Outreach referrals are co-ordinated with the Local Authority.  The focus is for CYP who are low-level communicators/ non-verbal who may need specialist advice and support in their mainstream settings. Strategies and advice will be given. Many of these CYP may go on to attend a specialist setting.

BASIS Training and Consultancy

BASIS Training and Consultancy offers a range of training packages for schools and organisations across Swindon.  The training offered can be tailor-made to individual requirements.  Consultancy is traded to any settings to support with their individual approach to SEND.

 We welcome discussions about the services that we offer – please get in touch and we can discuss how BASIS can work with you to support your individual needs and requirements.

Contact

For more information please contact:

Kelly Hill
Acting Head of Service 
Email:  admin@basisbrunel.org.uk
Mobile: 07825 044 640

BASIS Website: https://www.basisbrunel.org.uk/