The Minehead hotel that's a training college for people with learning disabilities

Sita Dommett has Down's Syndrome. Her mother was desperate for her to go on to a specialist school when she left college, but was being told by her local authority she wouldn't be funded. Sita's mother continued to fight and won her battle. Sita is now at the Foxes Academy and Hotel in Minehead.

Sita, 20, has been living and working at The Foxes Academy and Hotel in Minehead since September. She serves customers in the restaurant, lives with friends in a nearby house and now says her dream is one day to open her own cafe.

Sita is one of 64 Learners living and working there at the moment. The hotel and academy is believed to be the only one if it's kind in the country. It's a real operating hotel - open to paying customers. But it is also a training college for young people with learning disabilities.

In 2014 regulations changed so local authorities were made responsible for allocating funding. Staff fear with stricter criteria and budget cuts fewer pupils will be awarded money.

On average around 7 per cent of young people with learning difficulites have full time employment when they leave education. But staff here say 93 per cent of last year's graduates are now employed .

Sita only has funding in place so far for her first year. It's not yet known what the future holds . But she and her family say the Foxes Academy has given them the belief her dreams may now well come true.