The Department for Education has stated that 19 local authorities have invited applications to run new special free schools, potentially creating 1,600 new
special free school places.
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Place funding at
special free schools is not included in the 2016 to 2017 DSG allocations and no deductions will be made from local authorities» DSG for
places in these
schools.
Funded hospital education
places can be found in maintained
special schools (usually a particular type of
special school known as a hospital
school), maintained PRUs (sometimes known as medical PRUs),
special and AP academies and
free schools.
Special free schools are funded direct by EFA for the number of high needs
places.
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In addition, a further 20 local authority areas have been approved to create a new
special school through the
free school process, creating 1,700
school places for pupils with
special educational needs and disabilities.
The development of a 40 -
place school, offering eight
places for junior aged pupils, 24 for secondary pupils and eight
places for post-16 students, has been outlined in Portsmouth City Council's
special free school specifications.
Manchester City Council is seeking a sponsor for a 100 -
place special free school, which would include
places for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD), Severe Learning Difficulties (SLD) and ASD.
Essex County Council's specifications for its new
special free school will see it provide 64
places.
It will be aimed at ages seven and 16 and may provide up to four to six residential
places following consultation with the chosen sponsor for the
special free school.
Grindon Hall Christian
School (GCHS), in Sunderland, was
placed in
special measures in January, the same week the report into the now - closed Durham
Free School was also published.
Yet, even if local authorities could fund more
places in local authority or
free schools, they would «still face severe difficulties in the recruitment and retention of
special needs teachers», Angliss says.
MCS's sister institution, the Collective Spirit
free school in Oldham, closed last summer after it was
placed in
special measures.
Two
free schools in Greater Manchester will be re-brokered to new multi-academy trusts after one was
placed into
special measures on its first inspection and the second given...
A
free school in Birmingham has been dubbed inadequate and
placed into
special measures by Ofsted, just weeks after its leader lambasted other
schools across the city.
The head teacher of a
free school in West Sussex has been replaced after Ofsted said it was inadequate and
placed it in
special measures.
The trust's Perry Beeches III
free school, opened by Cameron and Gove (main picture), was
placed into
special measures by Ofsted last year.
The Government says that it wants to create an additional 270,000
school places in
free schools over the next five years, as well as opening new
special free schools, the latter will be dedicated to solely educating children with
special educational needs.
This revised guidance is for
schools (including academies,
free schools special schools, PRUs and independent
schools) and colleges across England and will become active on 5th September 2016 (until then, the existing version published in July 2015 remains in
place).