The Vision for Whinfell is that the young people who live and go to school here are:

✓ Happy Safe and Confident

✓ Supported to have rich, quality lives that are meaningfuk to them as unique individuals

✓ Confident and aspirational with self-belief and good communication skills

✓ Able to fulfil their academic potential and achieve meaningful accreditation

✓ Able to acquire transferable skills that lead to independence and involvement in the wider community

✓ Able to become ‘lifelong learners’

✓ Treated with dignity and respect

✓ Physically and emotionally healthy with improved emotional regulation

✓ Socially included in the community and have a true sense of belonging

✓ Empowered to make day-to-day decisions

✓ Able to set and achieve their own goals

✓ Able to develop greater understanding of how to keep themselves safe

✓ Developing greater autonomy across all parts of their lives

✓ Able to be as independent and resilient as they can possibly be when they eventually leave Whinfell

The Vision is achieved through an ethos that:

✓ Places the individual at the heart of the home and school

✓ Strives to enable our young people to be the best they can be

✓ Seeks to broaden their experiences and improve their life chances

✓  Is solution focused and strives to overcome barriers, ensuring opportunity and equality

✓ Provides truly caring, specialist, person-centred support that is innovative and creative

✓ Continually strives to improve, using best evidence-based approaches to meet the needs of the young people

✓ Values individual young people, staff, stakeholders and community connections