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Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) - Permission to consult on BESD school expansions for 2013-14 academic year.

 

 

Meeting: 15/02/2013 - Executive Board (Item 188)

188 Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) - Permission to consult on BESD school expansions for January 2014 pdf icon PDF 96 KB

To consider the report of the Director of Children’s Services requesting permission to consult on the proposed expansion of two Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres to take effect from January 2014 in order to meet the authority’s statutory duty to secure sufficient school places for children with statements of SEN which identify a BESD need. This proposal is in parallel to linked plans to decommission the current Key Stage 2 Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), Key Stage 3 PRU and Key Stage 4 PRU, in favour of expanded BESD SILC provision, and greater locality provision by schools and partnerships of schools.

 

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Minutes:

The Director of Children’s Services submitted a report requesting permission to consult on the proposed expansion of two Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres, proposed to take effect from January 2014, in order to meet the authority’s statutory duty to secure sufficient school places for children with statements of SEN which identify a BESD need. The proposals were in parallel with linked plans to decommission the current Key Stage 2 Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), Key Stage 3 PRU and Key Stage 4 PRU, in favour of expanded BESD SILC provision, and greater locality provision by schools and partnerships of schools.

 

Responding to Members’ enquiries, officers undertook to provide the relevant Members with a detailed briefing on several issues arising from the proposals outlined within the submitted report.

 

RESOLVED – That consultation exercises in respect of the following proposals be approved:

· Linked proposals to change the age range of the BESD Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre from 5 to 16 to 11 to 16, and to expand the capacity of the provision from 150 to 230 pupils using sites at Elmete Wood, Stonegate Road, the Burley Park Centre, the Hunslet Gate Centre and the Tinshill Centre with effect from January 2014;

 

· Proposal to expand the North East Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre (Oakwood Lane) 4-11 BESD provision from a capacity of 30 pupils aged 4-11 to 50 pupils aged 4-11 with effect from January 2014.