Avenue Primary SN Complete Proposal

Overview

The Council has a duty to secure appropriate special educational provision for pupils with special educational needs and to keep that provision under review. Accordingly, opportunity bases attached to schools are regularly reviewed.

At Culvers House, as other schools have increased their capacity to admit disabled children, the demand for the opportunity base has diminished considerably and increasingly it is possible fully to meet the needs of such pupils in their local primary school.

Avenue, there is an opportunity to establish a base to serve children with learning difficulties. There is already considerable demand for such places and a base at Avenue would improve the balance of provision within the Borough through serving children living in the Central Sutton locality and in the west of the Borough.

 At Sherwood Park, in response to significantly increased demand for pupils of secondary age with severe Autistic Spectrum Disorder (often with associated challenging behaviours), specialist provision is proposed which, because of space constraints on its current site, will use a part of the former site of Stanley Park High School.

The former two changes could be implemented from September 2014, but the last change could be implemented from September 2015.

Why your views matter

Following the decisions taken by the Council’s Children, Family and Education Committee at its meeting on the 13^th March, authorisation has been given to publish statutory proposals on the possible closure of the opportunity base at Culvers House Primary; the possible establishment of an opportunity base at Avenue Primary and the possible enlargement of Sherwood Park School by 80 places and the establishment of an additional site on the former site of Stanley Park High School.