SEN Proposals Sherwood Park Special School

Closed 14 Feb 2014

Opened 6 Jan 2014

Contact

David Ayres

(Pupil Planning Officer)

Pupil Based Commissioning

020 8770 6553

david.ayres@sutton.gov.uk

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 12th December, authorisation has been given to undertake public consultation 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 up to 80 places with the establishment of an additional site on the former site of Stanley Park High School.

What happens next

A public consultation on the possible changes to the three schools directly involved will be undertaken during the first half of the spring term. Consultation documents will be made available to interested parties such as parents and carers. There will be opportunities to find out more and to discuss the proposals at public meetings at the schools involved and at local committee meetings.

 

All responses will be carefully considered and reported to the Children Family and Education Committee at its meeting in March. The Committee will then be asked to authorise the publication of Statutory Proposals which are the formal legal notification of the Council’s intention to enlarge the three schools. A final decision on the proposals will be taken by the Committee in the summer

Events

Areas

  • Belmont
  • Carshalton Central
  • Cheam
  • Stonecot
  • Sutton Central
  • Sutton North
  • Sutton South
  • The Wrythe
  • Wallington North
  • Wallington South

Audiences

  • Community groups / organisations
  • Faith groups
  • Voluntary groups / organisations
  • All residents
  • Councillors / MPs / MEPs
  • Parents, carers and guardians

Interests

  • Children and young people
  • Education