The Community and Hospital Education Service is an AP Academy that exists to provide education for pupils unable to attend school due to medical reasons.  Its main principles are:

• Ensure early identification and intervention and thus reduce anxiety for children and young people, families and schools.
• Provide a maximum of 25 hours education per week, for all children and young people of statutory school age whose health enables them to access this.
• Encourage close liaison with parents and carers at every stage of the process.
• Ensure that the child’s view is taken into account at every stage.
• Provide continuity of educational provision.
• Promote successful reintegration back into mainstream school or Post 16 provision.
• Work together with other services and agencies to ensure there is a high-quality educational provision for this group of vulnerable children and young people.
• Ensure effective liaison with health professionals by schools, CHES and other AP provision.

CHES teachers and Learning Support Mentors visit the homes of the students and provide a personal, exciting and innovative education appropriate to the students in terms of their age as well as their educational and medical needs. Where appropriate, this may run alongside CHES online for Year 11 to enable students to access GCSE provision. CHES also offers small group work to students in Integrated Health Centres across Cornwall to enable them to learn in a safe environment before their eventual return to mainstream school. CHES also works with local colleges to provide Science activities linked to GCSE and Animal Care opportunities. 

In Patient Education at RCH (Treliske)

Education in Treliske is provided through the Hospital Schoolroom.  We adopt a “Creative Curriculum” that aims to reduce the anxiety of a hospital stay for pupils.  For longer stay pupils, individual programmes of education are developed, including teaching programmes that support national qualifications.

The Community and Hospital Education Service converted to academy status as part of WAVE Multi Academy Trust on 1st June 2018.

Further information can be found on https://wavemat.org/