Specialist Education

Brook View is a specialist children's home set in the tranquil countryside in Ribchester, Lancashire. A setting chosen to promote peace, safety, and opportunity for growth. The home provides year-round, residential care for boys and girls aged 8–17 (sometimes to 18 or 19 for educational reasons) with diagnoses including Autism, communication challenges, ADHD, and various learning difficulties.

 

 

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.

 

Bedroom 2  Bedroom

 

  • 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.

Nurturing Approach

Brook View's nurturing approach is especially powerful for children with Autism,
ADHD, and learning needs:

✓ Safe, predictable structure and routines foster trust and comfort.

✓ On-site education ensures minimal transitions and maximum support.

✓ Trained therapists and caregivers use approaches proven effective for neurodiversechildren, including communication aids, sensory rooms, and tailored interventions.

✓ The rural, low-distraction setting helps reduce anxiety and sensory overload, allowing young people to focus on discovering their strengths and interests.

✓ Each child receives dedicated support to make friendships, process emotions, and build a sense of self-worth.

 

Heartfelt, Professional Dedication

At Brook View, care is not just a job, it’s a vocation. Staff are regularly trained, highly experienced, and work from the heart, providing gentle guidance, loving support, and celebration of every child’s journey.

The goal is joy, safety, confidence, and progress, so each young person leaves Brook View with greater independence, resilience, and hope for their future.

Brook View stands as a loving countryside haven, dedicated to helping children with complex needs truly thrive.