{"id":75521,"date":"2026-07-30T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=75521"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:41:27","slug":"specialist-colleges","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/preparing-for-adult-life-ages-14-25-years\/education-and-employment\/post-16-education-for-young-people-with-send\/specialist-colleges\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialist colleges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specialist SEND colleges are designed specifically for young people with more complex or profound SEND whose needs cannot be fully met in a mainstream environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They offer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>highly personalised learning tailored to individual needs and EHC plan outcomes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>smaller class sizes and higher staff-to-student ratios<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>specialist staff trained in supporting a wide range of needs, including autism, severe learning difficulties, and profound and multiple learning difficulties<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>therapeutic support such as speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and emotional wellbeing services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a focus on life skills and independence, often with strong links to supported employment or community-based learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Specialist colleges in Devon<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedresponse.org.uk\/roc-college\" rel=\"noopener\">Roc College<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lifeworks-uk.org\/learning-disability-service\/our-college\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifeworks College<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oakwoodcourt.ac.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakwood<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/infocus-charity.org.uk\/what-we-do\/college\/\" rel=\"noopener\">InFocus College<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedeafacademy.ac.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Deaf Academy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specialist SEND colleges are designed specifically for young people with more complex or profound SEND whose needs cannot be fully met in a mainstream environment. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":72035,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-75521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 16:09:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75522,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75521\/revisions\/75522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}