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Developing Provision for Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Meeting: 09/06/2022 - Cabinet (Item 10)

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Minutes:

Cabinet considered a report that provided the outcomes of the formal consultations that were carried out in relation to proposals to create Special Educational Needs (SEN) units attached to two primary schools and one secondary school.

 

It was noted that the results of the feasibility studies and informal consultations to expand and increase the number of school places in two special schools were also provided and Cabinet was being asked to approve the publication of statutory notices and the initiation of formal consultation needed to make changes to the two schools. 

 

Additionally, the report included information in relation to a proposal to create a free special school for primary aged pupils presenting with social, emotional and mental health needs in a partially occupied building on the same site as Castle View Primary School in Lancaster. Cabinet was being asked to approve the initiation of the process required to establish the new school.

 

Resolved: That;

 

  1. Following consideration of the results of the formal consultations, and the creation of a Special Educational Needs unit at Fleetwood Chaucer Primary School, St Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale and St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, Billington, near Clitheroe be approved, and it be noted that the development of a Special Educational Needs unit at St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School was part of a larger school expansion that received Cabinet approval in April 2022;
  2. Following consideration of the results of the informal consultation to expand and increase the number of school places at Thornton Cleveleys Red Marsh School and Lostock Hall Moor Hey School, approval be given to initiate the formal consultation process; and
  3. The undertaking of the process to establish a new school in Lancaster for primary aged pupils presenting with social, emotional and mental health needs, in accordance with the updated Department for Education 'Establishing a New School: Free School Presumption' guidance and associated framework, be approved.

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