Queensmill School is at 1 Askham Road, Shepherd's Bush, and serves students aged 3–19 with moderate to complex autism in a three-storey building.
[9] Queensmill School began as a community school administered by Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council which educated autistic children aged 3–11 in a Victorian building in Clancarty Road in Fulham.
[2][11][12] The new building has an on-site kitchen and the school hired a chef, Djalma Lucio Polli de Carvalho, with noticeable positive effects on students.
Problems noted included failures in updating records on student medications and in verifying background checks had been completed on new staff,[14][15] and a lack of understanding of current guidance on safeguarding.
[14] The Queensmill Trust has complained that Hammersmith and Fulham does not give the school sufficient 'top-up funding' to meet the costs of the required Education, Health and Care Plans for students from the borough.