Sentences with phrase «special school places»

In its latest pupil number projections, the Department for Education indicated that it expects there to be an increase in special school places of 13,000 over the period 2017 to 2026, reflecting an upward trend in the special schools population of 29 per cent since 2007.

High Needs National Funding Formula will make it worse with lagged funding (Jan 17 census for 2018/19) for special school places at only # 4000 instead of the # 10k LAs have to pay.

The Corby Free Special School will address the need for more special school places in Corby, where parents and their children often have to travel significant distances to access a suitable education.

Essex County Council has announced plans to invest # 85 million in creating more than 400 new special school places across the county.

Simon Knight, the director of Whole School SEND, a consortium dedicated to improving outcomes for SEND pupils, said specialist provision attached to mainstream schools should not be seen as a short cut when special school places were scarce.

Freedom of Information responses from 110 councils seen by Schools Week reveal the councils spent an average # 52,000 per pupil on independent special school places for 2015 - 16.

Nearly four in five councils said this was a «major constraint» on delivering sufficient special school places.

In addition, up to # 85 million, including # 42 million from the Essex Schools Forum and up to # 43 million of capital funding from the council, has been allocated towards creating more special school places in the county over the next three to five years.

In the last ten years the failed ideology of «inclusion» and the drop in special school places have left the most vulnerable more exposed,» he said.

The record investment includes # 42million from the Essex Schools Forum, as well as # 43million of capital funding from Essex County Council, and follows an increase in the number of young people in the county being diagnosed with autism and a growing need for special school places.

«This is why we need to recreate many more special school places.

Department for Education and Skills said parents had a right to a special school place if they wanted it and that consolidating provision in fewer, bigger schools meant there were more «centres of excellence».

Department for Education projections suggest that a shortfall in special school places will mean that more complex SEND provision is needed in mainstream schools.