Sunnydown School is a community special school located in Caterham. Mr Jensen has been the Head of the school since 2014. He would like it to overcome the austerity challenges and therefore the school has continued to spend money in a deliberate approach to ensure that its young autistic men continue to receive access to the best possible education available. The National Autistic Society have published statistics (2016) that only 16% of autistic adults in the UK are in full-time paid employment, and only 32% are in a form of paid work.
With a sense of exasperation, I surveyed the room. Thirty wriggling, giggling, sniggering seven-year olds, fresh from break time - cheeks flushed and hair wild. By this point, I was ready to try anything to calm this high- spirited, boy heavy group of Year 2s – herding cats would have been a far simpler task.
Adele Brand is an ecologist who was born and raised in Chaldon. Her new book, The Hidden Life of the Fox, explores how they survive both in the wild, and in areas imposed upon by humans.
