A highly specialised, diagnostic approach.

The ultimate aim of RestartEd is to unpick the long-standing, underlying issues faced by every child and young person who comes to us, and provide detailed recommendations to the relevant bodies – such as their parent school and local authority – as how to best support their needs moving forward and help them progress academically, socially and emotionally. To do this, we follow a focused, diagnostic approach to making individual assessments and evaluations.

  • Designed to run for a maximum of 12 weeks, in addition to a 6-week review period to allow for detailed assessment, review and reflection.
  • Comprising 12 hours per week of formal education to complement their day-to-day learning.
  • Focus on essential skills in core subjects, such as Maths and English, supported by a range of PSHE tailored topics.
  • Devised by our highly experienced senior management and leadership team.

Each young person who comes to RestartEd receives:

  • a GL (Granada Learning) assessment into their maths, literacy, language, verbal and non-verbal reasoning skills.
  • a Lexonik assessment evaluating their confidence in reading and their essential comprehension skills.
  • a detailed Boxhall Profile, assessing their social, emotional and mental development.
  • dyslexia screening to pinpoint individual strengths and weaknesses, and identify the likelihood of a young person having a specific learning difficulty that may be triggering their classroom behaviours and affecting their learning.
  • full access to high quality counselling services.

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can have a significant and detrimental impact on a young person’s academic, social and emotional development, and seriously hamper their ability to access formal education, thus negatively affecting their consequent outcomes in later life.

Here at RestartEd, we’re committed to helping all of our pupils build their resilience against trauma, and actually use their adverse experiences to their advantage.

Our Coordinator, Nicola Baker, is highly experienced in this field, and helps us to follow a whole-school approach, including detailed ACE evaluation and assessment, and viewing all behaviours as a form of communication.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Unique to the education sector in the North West of England, RestartEd offers a highly innovative outreach approach drawing on the considerable experience of our team and the wider Grolife family, who work day-to-day with pupils with a range of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, neurodiverse conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia, and SEMH (Social, Emotional and Mental Health) difficulties.

Additionally, our specialist diagnostic and assessment programme has been designed with support and collaboration from our SENCo experts, headed by our
SEND Lead Zoe McCall, and is overseen by our Senior Management and Leadership team, all of whom are highly experienced educators with proven track records in both alternative provision and mainstream settings.

Nic Baker“My day-to-day work as an educator encompasses extensive experience in behaviour and change management, social and emotional learning and trauma-informed care.”

Nicola Baker – RestartEd Coordinator

Zoe McCall“Specific learning difficulties and behaviours should never prevent a young person from fulfilling their maximum learning and life potential. RestartEd is focused on building tailored delivery plans, based on detailed profiling and assessments, to help them engage more positively with education and succeed.”

Zoe McCall – SEND Lead