Compass Learning and Education

Personalised alternative education and therapeutic outreach, shaped around each young person's needs, strengths and goals. Compass combines academic learning with qualifications, mentoring and therapeutic intervention to help learners build confidence, make progress and work towards reintegration into school where appropriate. Academic core - personalised teaching in English, Maths, Science and PSHE. Accredited Qualifications - opportunities to work towards the Arts Award, Functional Skills and NOCN Skills for Employment Training and Personal Development. The NOCN route has many units that a child can select from, including vocational units such as animal care, construction and hair and beauty which we can organise delivery for through a delivery partner. Mentoring - mentoring support from one of our five strands within our mentoring framework. Psychotherapy - including Art and Play therapy, CBT and person centred therapy.

Personalised alternative education and therapeutic outreach, shaped around each young person's needs, strengths and goals. Compass combines academic learning with qualifications, mentoring and therapeutic intervention to help learners build confidence, make progress and work towards reintegration into school where appropriate. Academic core - personalised teaching in English, Maths, Science and PSHE. Accredited Qualifications - opportunities to work towards the Arts Award, Functional Skills and NOCN Skills for Employment Training and Personal Development. The NOCN route has many units that a child can select from, including vocational units such as animal care, construction and hair and beauty which we can organise delivery for through a delivery partner. Mentoring - mentoring support from one of our five strands within our mentoring framework. Psychotherapy - including Art and Play therapy, CBT and person centred therapy.

One-to-one outreach education brought to the learner (online, at home, or at a school or community venue): personalised English, Maths, Science and PSHE; Functional Skills, Arts Award and NOCN qualifications; mentoring across five strands; and psychotherapy including art and play therapy, CBT and person-centred therapy. Vocational units (animal care, construction, hair and beauty) are arranged through a delivery partner.

• Functional Skills — accredited · Awarding body: NOCN
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• Arts Award — accredited
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• NOCN — accredited · Awarding body: NOCN Skills for Employment, Training and Personal Development
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No fixed physical location.

Service area: Greater Manchester, Salford, Wigan, Warrington

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Provider-submitted: designated safeguarding lead oversight; all staff hold enhanced DBS checks including the children's barred list, with Update Service status checked every three months centrally; risk assessments for every child and venue; safer recruitment under KCSIE. The provider's website says it works in line with KCSIE and the DfE Voluntary National Standards for Non-School Alternative Provision.

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• Referral from a school
• Referral from a local authority
• Families can contact or buy the provider’s own services directly
• Direct purchase / self-funded places may be possible

Confirmed by the provider (2026-10). Always check with the provider, who decides who it can take.

Direct family access means contacting or buying this provider’s own services. It is not a route into a placement commissioned by a school or local authority, and it does not by itself arrange examination entry; ask the provider how each works.

General information only, not advice about an individual case. Your local authority can explain the options for your child.

EOTAS and personal budget; Section 19; SEND High Needs funded via the local authority. Schools can commission directly. Parents can also fund directly, for example for home education.

Funding routes are indicative — availability of a particular route is not guaranteed and should be confirmed directly.

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