Bev works in Trafford near Manchester.
She has a KS4 centre with 24 pupils which is a medical PRU and no behavioural pupils, mainly ASR, eating disorders, self harm etc. She has a KS3 version on a different site. She did have KS3 & 4 together but found the KS3 became entrenched and did not want to go back to school. Also have a home tuition service and work in the small hospital nearby. 99% of hospital cases are treated in the Manchester hospitals. She is line managed along with 2 other PRUs for pupils with behavioural difficulties at KS 3 & 4. They all have the same management committee.

Email  Bev Durham

Cath is deputy head of the medical PRU in Northamptonshire.
There are 2 outreach bases for KS 3 & 4, 2 hospital bases, 1 tier 4 in patient provision being built and home tuition service. They also have the primary excluded pupils under their remit. There are 2 other behavioural PRUs in the county and all PRUs have the same line manager but separate management committees.

Email  Cath Kitchen

Sam is the teacher in charge in an adolescent unit in Hessle, Hull.
They take up to 12 pupils with 6 residential, mostly general psychiatric cases. The unit is currently looking at becoming a 24 hour provision. There is Sam and 1 FT teacher and they open 5 days. They are part of a general medical PRU with the hospital and the share a management committee with the provision for pregnant school girls.

Email
Sam Greenway

Gwyn is part of the Hospital and Home tuition service in Lambeth.
They have 6 staff, 5 p/t and 1 LSA. There is a hospital school and they started an outreach unit last year and are finding the biggest problem is getting the pupils in – because of their phobias, they are having to collect them in cars. They were just recently taken under the remit of the secondary PRU and since then their outreach work has grown exponentially: they are employing more supply staff. They are finding pupils with diagnoses of Aspergers and autism and accompanying complex and abusive tendencies are being referred and the work has become more difficult and challenging. Finding placements for pupils with ASD is challenging as there are no schools in that area.

Email  Gwyneth Purcell

Helen is the Head of Centre at South Somerset Link Education Centre, which is a medical PDU in Somerset. 

Email  Helen Perris

Liz is the teacher in charge of the home tuition service in Hull.
There are 4 teachers and supply staff. They have a teaching unit and also teach in homes and cover 4-18 years age range. She has a new manager who was previously head of Portage so is having to learn all about medical PRUs.

Email  Liz McAuley

Di is head of the Lancashire provision as 1 county wide PRU.
She has 7 medical centres, each providing for KS 3 & 4 (KS4 mornings and KS3 afternoons), 4 hospitals and she now manages 2 CAMHS units (tier 3 & 4) although they are not part of the education provision. She has a small management team and key group leaders who will become centre managers and take on more responsibility. She has links to the behavioural PRUs and there is one management committee for all the PRUs.

Email  Di Wood

Lynn is the Head Teacher of Northamptonshire Hospital and Outreach Education Service, a medical PRU for pupils with medical needs. She also manages the primary excluded project for pupils of primary age who have been excluded from school and support their teaching and reintegration back to mainstream.

Email  Lynn Mayer

Jan is the teacher in charge of the Hospital Education Support Service (HESS) on Tropical Lagoon Children's Ward based at Queen's Hospital in the London Borough of Havering. Working with Jan is a part-time teachers assistant.
Tropical Lagoon is an acute paediatric ward admittting up to 28 children with the number possibly doubling in 2010 as a neighbouring hospital closes. 
HESS is part of a wider service providing home tuition and a medical KS4 PRU. There is one management committee for the entire service.

Email  Jan Bennett

Maggie is the teacher in charge at Greenwich medical PRU Contact details Mcummins.gpru.greenwich@lgfl.net

Email  Maggie Cummins

David manages the education provision at the tier 4 hospital in Taunton, Somerset.
It is a regional unit for up to 18 pupils with 12 beds which are normally full. They take pupils form year 4 upwards and the are just in negotiation about the post 16 funding for the provision. They should be moving shortly to much more appropriate premises. David said the nature of the referrals was moving away from eating disorders and psychosis to more emerging personality disorders which they are starting to specialise in. They offer reintegration to school from the unit. David is the only member of staff but he has good support from his multi-agency colleagues.

Email  David Tomlinson

Chris is Head Teacher of The Pilgrim School in Boston, Lincolnshire. This is a Community Special School established in a hospital providing countywide outreach service for medical needs and teenage pregnancy reintegration and support.

Email  Chris Seymour

Julie is a ward teacher at Nottingham Children’s Hospital and a member of the cystic fibrosis multi disciplinary team. Nottingham has a Hospital and Home Education Learning Centre, which is made up of the hospital school at Queen’s Medical Centre with 7 fte teachers, and a purpose built site at Thorneywood where children and young people attend the school following their admission to the Health Trust’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
Home Education is also managed from Thorneywood where Key Stage 4 pupils with medical needs who are unable to attend their own school but who are fit to leave home are encouraged to attend small group provision called The Fairmead Group.

Email  Julie Overend