The Mulberry Bush School supports children with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. The children we help come to us with a wide range of needs and a variety of diagnoses. Many of the children can broadly be described as having an attachment disorder of some kind while other diagnoses may include: Attachment Disorder Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Challenging Behaviours Complex Needs Complex Trauma Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) Learning Difficulties Mental Health Conditions Mental Health Needs Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH)

The Mulberry Bush School is an acclaimed therapeutic residential special school for children with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties.  These are children who have suffered early trauma, neglect and abuse and their behaviours are often very high risk, chaotic, aggressive and/or sexualised.
The School is in Oxfordshire and is a non-maintained residential special school.  It provides 38 week therapeutic care, treatment and education for boys and girls aged 5-13 from across the country. The school also works with the families of children placed, in order to support a successful and stable home base for the whole family.

The Mulberry Bush School provides individualised care, treatment and education plans, overseen, in each case, by a multidisciplinary treatment team of highly trained professional staff, including a therapist.

The service comprises of group living in residential households, National Curriculum education, group and individual drama and music therapy, individual psychotherapy, group work, family work, VIG work, family therapy, training and consultation, as appropriate to meet identified needs. All parts of the service are located on one outstanding site.

The School can also work closely with carefully selected foster care providers to form 52 week packages.

Mulberry Bush is a charity and so is not for profit.  It continues to guarantee a 0% fee increase for children once placed, for the duration of their placement.

The School’s Statement of Primary Task is:

‘To help primary aged children who have been unable to live in a family or learn in school, who have deep and complex emotional troubles and have developed antisocial ways of being, to discover helpful ways of living with themselves and others and to see themselves as learners and achievers.’

For further information please see our Information Booklet

http://www.mulberrybush.org.uk/our-school/how-we-help/#.VbYuz2A-B25