Embracing our differences (Jan 2025)

Find out about how students at Derwen College in Shropshire embrace their differences.

We are often asked ‘who are your students?’

The simple answer is that there are no ‘typical’ students at Derwen College.
Derwen College offers residential and day placements to students with a wide range of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Aged 16–25, young people join us from all over the UK on a day or residential basis. We welcome young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including, but not limited to; autism, physical disabilities and behaviours of concern.

Our students may have moderate, severe, complex or profound and multiple learning disabilities. Their abilities range from pre-entry (milestones 1–8), up to Level 1.

We welcome a very diverse student cohort, with no typical student.

www.derwen.ac.uk

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Derwen College, in Gobowen, Shropshire, is an award-winning specialist college for young adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including learning and physical disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Conditions, behaviours of concerns and Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).

The College offers students the opportunity to learn new skills in real work environments and to learn life skills which will enable them to live as independently as possible.

Derwen College has won a range of awards including the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity.

The College has its main site in Gobowen, near Oswestry, and has three satellite sites: Derwen College Telford; Derwen College Walford, near Shrewsbury; and Derwen College Ludlow, in south Shropshire.

For more information visit www.derwen.ac.uk