Decision details

ADDITION OF A SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTRE TO KEYHAM BARTON CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Decisions:

Carole Burgoyne (Director for People) submitted a report indicating that the proportion of statemented pupils with an autistic spectrum condition (ASC) requiring specialist provision had risen in both the secondary and primary sector.  Keyham Barton Catholic Primary School currently had the opportunity, working with the Diocese, to make considerable alterations to the school and adjacent presbytery building which would provide a centrally located support base for ASC students and associated break out spaces. This would contribute to the council’s strategic requirement of providing additional capacity to meet the special educational needs of complex children with ASC including specialist teaching input, within a mainstream setting. The school currently provided five places for ASC pupils from across the city.

Councillor Evans (Council Leader), in the absence of Councillor Williams (Cabinet Member for Children and Young People), introduced the proposals.

 

Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –

 

As set out in the report.

 

Agreed that –

 

(1)

 formal consultations are undertaken with all interested parties on proposals to add a special education needs support centre for complex children with autistic spectrum condition to Keyham Barton Catholic Primary School with effect from September 2014, using the facilities to be renovated by the Diocese; 

(2)

the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, in the light of the outcomes of and responses to the formal consultations, is authorised to determine whether to publish formal proposals (Public Notice) to undertake the above change and to determine whether to implement the proposal outlined in any such Public Notice. 

 

Publication date: 09/08/2013

Date of decision: 06/08/2013

Decided at meeting: 06/08/2013 - Cabinet

Effective from: 17/08/2013

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