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Safespaces in Schools

Create a Safespace in your classroom

The Safespace provides a calm, low stimulation environment, an asset in busy classrooms. Safespaces can help where there is a wide range of needs amongst students.

The Safespace is extremely versatile and enables schools to:
  • Meets students individual needs
  • Deliver a sensory diet
  • Promote inclusion
  • Supports behaviour self-management
  • Reduce restrictive interventions
  • Easily adapt the school environment

A low stimulation, calming environment

A Safespace provides a low stimulation area, which students can use to settle in, or have quiet time in a busy classroom.  Students can use the Safespace as a means of managing their own behaviour, by requesting time in it when they recognise their stress levels are rising.

Therapy and sensory space

Safespaces are used as one to one therapy spaces and as safe areas in which to enjoy sensory equipment. Time in a sensory Safespace can be offered as part of positive reinforcement. The mesh roof, viewing panels and optional white wall allow for the use of projectors and sensory lighting. We can provide sensory lighting, soft play shapes and furniture, in order to create a beautiful and safe, sensory environment.

Crisis management

Many schools offer parents the option for a Safespace to be used as part of a crisis management plan for their child. It can help reduce the incidence of crisis situations and be used as part of a restraint reduction plan. It can offer a less restrictive option than manual ‘holding’ to prevent physical injury to others. This can mean that relationships with staff members are not damaged by the use of more restrictive practices. The Safespace may be positioned in a classroom to allow a rapid response to incidents and enable the pupil to return to the group more quickly

Versatility and Practicality

A Safespace is made to measure and our team will design your Safespace to suit the space available, this may be in a classroom, corridor or hall. It can be installed with minimal disruption to the classroom, avoiding the need for structural building work and so reduces costs. It can be dismantled and moved to where it is most needed, for example, when a student or class moves to a new room. This is a key reason why many schools have chosen a Safespace instead of room padding.