Agenda item

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

Recommendations

1.             That approval be granted to the commencement of a period of pre statutory consultation in relation to proposals to make prescribed alterations to Newman Special School. 

2.             That a further report be submitted in January 2022 outlining the outcome of pre statutory consultation and seeking approval to proceed to a period of statutory consultation.

Consideration was given to the report which sought approval to commence a period of pre-statutory consultation on proposals to make prescribed alterations to Newman Special School. The prescribed alterations included increasing the registered number of places from the current 120 to 180. There were already 159 pupils on roll.

The proposals also included the establishment of a permanent annex site at the old Dinnington College site and the amendment of the designation of the school to complex SEND to cover all existing cohorts across a range of complexity of needs. The site at Dinnington would give capacity for the 180 pupils and was necessary on a temporary basis initially to support the facilitation of planned essential works and maintenance to parts of the Newman School site.

A period of pre-statutory consultation was necessary under the requirements of the Department for Education School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2013. The consultation would last a minimum of four weeks and a report would be brought back to Cabinet in January 2022 outlining the outcome.

Resolved:

1.    That approval is granted to commence a period of pre-statutory consultation in relation to proposals to make prescribed alterations to Newman Special School and

2.    That a further report be submitted to Cabinet in January 2022 outlining the outcome of the pre-statutory consultation and seeking approval to proceed to a period of statutory consultation.