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Schools Accessibility Strategy

Meeting: 19/06/2023 - Cabinet (Item 7)

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Report from the Strategic Director for Children and Young People’s Services.

 

Recommendations:

 

That Cabinet:

 

1.    Approve the School Accessibility Strategy.

 

2.    Approve the Capital Accessibility Funding Framework and schools’ accessibility application process.

 

3.    To provide a future report to Cabinet to approve the outcome of the application for the capital  ...  view the full agenda text for item 7

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Consideration was given to the report submitted which detailed that all schools had a statutory duty to provide ‘reasonable adjustments’ for their pupils to make sure disabled students were not discriminated against. There were three main categories of adjustment that schools were expected to make for children: Improving access to  ...  view the full minutes text for item 7