Welcome to
UET Compass Academy

The UET Compass Academy is made up of three Compass schools and Earthsea.

Compass Schools are commissioned by Norfolk County Council Children’s Services and Local NHS Clinical Commissioners and delivered in partnership by the Unity Education Trust and Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. It is a special list therapeutic alternative provision. 

Earthsea is commissioned by Norfolk County Council Children’s services and delivered in partnership by the Unity Education Trust. It is a specialist alternative provision.

There are approximately 50 places in three Compass Schools:

• UET Compass Belton Academy – Belton, Great Yarmouth,
• UET Compass West – Great Dunham, King’s Lynn
• UET Compass Lingwood – Lingwood, Norwich.

There are 21 places at UET Earthsea – Honningham, Norwich.

We cater for children and young people within the key stage 1-3 range who present with severe and challenging behaviours, emerging or actual mental health needs, including attachment issues and/or developmental trauma.

All our children and young people have an Education and Health Care Plan (EHCP) with a primary need for Social, Emotional and Mental Health difficulties.

UET Compass Academy work collaboratively with children and young people, and their families, to provide high quality education and therapeutic interventions. UET Compass Academy have an inclusive culture which works with children and young people’s strengths using an integrated approach to education and therapy. The staff work creatively to engage with children and young people in a way that is flexible and tailored to the needs of each pupil, with the aim of preparing them for their next education placement.