Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Children’s Services providing information on proposals to establish a Leeds Behaviour Alliance intended to bring together the specialist (SILC), targeted (PRU), locality (AIP), and individual school behaviour offer in order to support children to make progress in learning by preventing exclusion from learning, providing outstanding learning opportunities when short periods out of mainstream are necessary, and maximise re-integration back into mainstream learning.

The Director of Children’s Services submitted a report providing information on proposals to establish a Leeds Behaviour Alliance which intended to bring together the specialist (SILC), targeted (PRU), locality (AIP), and individual school behaviour offer, in order to support children to make progress in learning by preventing exclusion from learning, providing outstanding learning opportunities when short periods out of mainstream were necessary, and to maximise re-integration back into mainstream learning.

Members welcomed the clarification provided within the submitted report that children with SEN statements and complex or multiple needs who benefited from generic SILC provision, would not be placed in a provision alongside children with a behaviour need.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the publication of a statutory notice for the change in the age range of the BESD Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (Elmete Wood) from 5 to 16 to 11 to 16; the expansion of the capacity of the provision from 150 to 200 pupils using sites at Elmete Wood, Stonegate Road, the Burley Park Centre, the Hunslet Gate Centre, and the Tinshill Centre; and the expansion of its remit to allow it to offer provision to children without a statement of special educational needs, in the manner of a PRU, with effect from January 2014, be approved.

(b)  That the publication of a statutory notice for the expansion of the North East Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (Oakwood Lane) primary BESD provision from a capacity of 30 pupils aged 4-11 to 40 pupils aged 4-11; and the expansion of its remit to allow it to offer provision to children without a statement of special educational needs, in the manner of a PRU, with effect from January 2014, be approved.