Redbank School

Redbank School, established in 1976, is located behind Westmead Hospital and is part of a combined Department of Education and Training and Department of Health facility for the treatment of children and adolescents with emotional, behavioural or psychiatric difficulties. These difficulties may include depression, eating disorders, anxiety, psychosis, trauma, complicated family problems, and difficulties getting along with others at school. Although our students are predominantly from the greater west of Sydney, some parts of our program service all of NSW. Students attend Redbank School for periods ranging from one week to two terms. We have a maximum enrolment of 48 students. Redbank has three units; the Child and Family Unit, for students K-6, the Adolescent and Family Unit, for students in years 7-12, and the Acute Adolescent Unit, a locked ward for adolescents with a severe psychiatric illness. Students that enrol in our school are first accepted as patients into Redbank House (ph:9845 6577), which is Westmead Hospital’s Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. Our school provides behavioural intervention, academic testing and remediation, support to the student’s home school and state-wide training to Education and Health staff on the management in the classroom of emotional and behavioural problems of children and adolescents.