Decision details

Permission to proceed with statutory consultation to close the city’s designated specialist resourced provision for deaf and hearing impaired children at Cottingley Primary Academy and open a provision for the same need at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School.

The Director of Children’s Services submitted a report which sought permission to consult upon the addition of provision reserved by the Local Authority for deaf and hearing impaired children at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School.

RESOLVED – That approval be given to the undertaking of a consultation exercise on the addition of provision at Moor Allerton Hall Primary School that is recognised by the Local Authority as reserved for pupils who are deaf and hearing impaired, with effect from September 2014.

Under the Education and Inspections Act 2006 these proposals constitute prescribed alterations requiring a statutory consultation process. The first step of this process is a public consultation which would run from 16^th September 2013 to 25^th October 2013.

There would be on-going consultation with key stakeholders as appropriate, throughout the development of the provision.

·  Staff, governors and families of Moor Allerton

·  Local councillors and local residents in the areas surrounding the schools concerned

·  Parents of profoundly deaf children in Leeds City Council National Deaf Children’s Society and Leeds Deaf Children’s Society

·  Children’s Hearing Services Working Group