:Orbis Education and Care

{{Short description|Autism care and education provider in UK}}

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Orbis Education and Care is a provider of schools, residential homes and facilities for children and adults with a diagnosis of autism based in Cardiff. It runs 16 schools, residential homes and facilities for children and adults in Wales and employs about 650 people.{{cite news |title=ORBIS BRINGS IN FIRST COO |url=https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/wales/orbis-brings-in-first-coo |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=Insider Media |date=25 April 2019}}

Lucy Pottinger is the head of education.

It opened a new facility in Port Talbot in 2016.{{cite news |title=The Week Ahead: So what's Lucy Pottinger of Orbis Education and Care up to this week? |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/business/appointments/week-ahead-whats-lucy-pottinger-10853995 |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=Wales online |date=7 February 2016}}

It was founded by Andrew McCarthy in 2005. He sold it to August Equity for £28 million in 2017.{{cite news |title=AUTISM CARE PROVIDER BOUGHT IN £28M DEAL |url=https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/wales/autism-care-provider-sold-in-28m-deal |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=Insider Media |date=20 June 2017}} It bought Pembrokeshire Resource Centre, which trades as Bangeston Autism Care Services, and operates four sites in Pembrokeshire, in 2017.{{cite news |title=ORBIS EDUCATION AND CARE ACQUIRES BANGESTON AUTISM CARE SERVICES |url=http://www.bqlive.co.uk/healthcare-medical/2017/10/03/news/orbis-education-and-care-acquires-bangeston-autism-care-services-28042/?refresh_ce |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=BQ Live |date=3 October 2017}}

It commissioned classroom pods, specially designed for autistic pupils from the IAD Company in 2019. Six of the expandable structures were built at Ty Bronllys, near Brecon. They are designed to "help students at feel at ease with their surroundings and to promote the sense of going on an adventure every day, rather than to school.”{{cite news |title=Autistic pupils first to experience innovative new Pod classrooms |url=https://www.buildingbetterhealthcare.co.uk/news/article_page/Autistic_pupils_first_to_experience_innovative_new_Pod_classrooms/156189/cn164706 |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=Building Better Healthcare |date=8 July 2019}}

It is planning to open a school and residential home which will accommodate 30 pupils with complex needs in Tewkesbury, its first facility in England, in 2019.{{cite news |title=Specialist autism school set to open and create 300 jobs |url=https://www.punchline-gloucester.com/articles/aanews/specialist-autism-school-set-to-open-in-tewkesbury-gloucestershire-and-create-300-jobs |accessdate=23 August 2019 |publisher=Punchline Gloucester |date=8 March 2019}}