Treloar School and College is a non-maintained residential and day special school and college for severely disabled children and young people aged from 2 to 25. Comprising of 5 residential houses ranging from 24 – 36 beds, their purpose is to enable education and independence for severely disabled young people. CASE STUDY Nurse Call & Acoustic Monitoring at Treloar Campus Many of the students at Treloar’s have extremely complex staff. It was clear a more sophisticated solution for the needs. This means they are not always able to summon wellbeing of both our students and for those caring for them assistance via a standard nurse call system which can leave at Treloar’s needed to be found” them vulnerable especially at night. The diverse types and complexities of student needs means problems can occur at any time, but during the night the smaller number of night-shift staff were carrying out scheduled in-room checks typically every 30 – 60 minutes which left windows of unattended time when life-threatening issues, such as seizures, choking etc. could arise. For vulnerable students, the school and college previously used a variety of domestic style baby/video monitors. However, as the complexity of students increased, the number of students requiring these devices increased and it became clear that a more effective and streamlined form of monitoring was needed to provide more rapid and efficient assistance. “With radio frequencies of domestic style baby monitors being challenging to maintain, and the number of students requiring remote visual monitoring increasing, support workers felt they had to conduct additional ad-hoc in room checks on students throughout the day and night. This disturbed students’ sleep and put extra strain on residential Implementing CLB’s bespoke acoustic monitoring and nurse call system has improved the situation on every level, seeing a positive impact on both staff productivity and student wellbeing. Students have seen faster responses, a better level of care and improved quality of life due to more accurate notifications and alerts for staff via the system. Students now benefit from a better quality of sleep due to support workers being able to conduct checks remotely without having to open bedroom doors and disturb them. CLB’s acoustic monitoring system now enables students to be continuously and unobtrusively monitored. “A student who boards at the college used to choose to have her door open at night as she was aware that staff needed to check her hourly and it woke her up if staff had to open her door. Once Treloar’s introduced the CLB Acoustic Monitoring system she was over the moon as she could now sleep with her door shut, safe in the knowledge that staff could check her via the CLB Acoustic Monitoring system.”

How the system works The audio system is set to detect onset of seizure or other activity by recognising specific levels, types and patterns of sound. Additionally, students who feel in distress can simply call out for assistance instead of having to find and push a nurse-call button. The same goes for attending staff who need immediate back-up while their hands are full. In each case, an alert goes out to other on-duty staff that assistance is required. To complement the incident alert function, staff can listen in on rooms turn-by-turn at any time to check normality of regular sounds such as...