Brook View is a specialist school nestled in the peaceful countryside of Ribchester, Lancashire, with two residential homes located on site, Orion and Farmhouse.

This carefully chosen setting fosters peace, safety, and opportunities for personal growth. Within the campus, Brook View provides year-round residential care for boys and girls aged 8 to 18 who have diagnoses such as Autism, communication difficulties, ADHD, and a range of learning challenges.

What Brook View Offers:

• Personalised, Loving Care: Each young person’s care plan is tailored to their unique needs,aiming to achieve their “personal best.” This plan is shaped by input from education, care,and clinical teams, as well as family and the young person themselves.

• Holistic Support: The ethos is deeply integrated, school and home work as one to support both academic progression and emotional/social development. There’s a close relationshipbetween school staff and home staff, ensuring consistency and seamless supportthroughout the day and night.

• Therapeutic, Safe Environment: Brook View is designed to feel like a true home, not an institution. Each child helps personalise their own en-suite bedroom. Communal spaces, sensoryrooms, a soft play area, and nurturing staff all foster comfort, security, and a genuinesense of belonging.

• Life Skills & Independence: The routines, learning-centred activities, and “wraparound” therapeutic support are all aimed at helping young people build self-management,independence, and life skills, so they can thrive within Brook View and, in time, beyond it.

• Social & Communication Growth: Key objectives include boosting communication, socialinteraction, and self-management of difficult behaviours, with every achievement celebrated, no matter how small.

• Broad Experiences: Surrounded by natural beauty, young people enjoy country walks,trips to local parks, and regular outings to nearby seaside towns (Blackpool and Southport).Cultural, recreational, and holiday events are marked and celebrated, helping everyone feelincluded and valued.

• Diversity & Belonging: Brook View maintains a strong commitment to every child’s cultural,religious, and linguistic identity. Celebrations, tailored menus, and active encouragementto express individual backgrounds are central to life here.

We currently have two residental homes offering 52-week residential provisions for boys and girls within the Brook View school grounds.