Updated
Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24
Creating Tomorrow College Opens 6-Place Rugby SEND Campus With Iron Mountain
Updated
Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24

Creating Tomorrow College Opens 6-Place Rugby SEND Campus With Iron Mountain

2 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24

Summary

  • September will bring the first pupils to Creating Tomorrow College’s new Rugby campus at Symmetry Park, a SEND site for 18- to 25-year-olds created with Iron Mountain.
  • The college says the campus is designed to improve employment prospects for young people with learning difficulties by placing learners in a live working environment and exposing them to careers including hospitality and retail.
  • Principal Gareth Ivett said fewer than 5% of young people with learning difficulties are in work even though about 86% want to be, framing the gap the new campus aims to address.
  • All six places for the first intake have already been filled, extending the college’s network beyond Kettering, Daventry, Lutterworth and Wellingborough into Warwickshire.

Insights

Is this college's workplace-embedded model the blueprint for fixing the UK's failing SEND-to-work pipeline?
If a college achieves 100% job success for SEND youth, what is the real barrier for employers?
As government strategies align with this model, can it finally close the vast disability employment gap?