Issue - meetings
Determination of proposals to discontinue Grove Park Special School and alter Hay Lane Special School
Meeting: 15/03/2010 - Executive (Item 8)
This report seeks the Executive’s determination of the statutory proposals (published on 31 December 2009) to discontinue Grove Park Special School and alter Hay Lane Special School (see Appendix A). The representation period ended on 12 February 2010. The net effect of determining these proposals as recommended is to discontinue Grove Park Special School and to expand Hay Lane Special School so that all the children registered at Grove Park Special School can move to Hay Lane Special School.
Additional documents:
Decision:
(i) that approval be given to the statutory proposal published on 31 December 2009 to discontinue Grove Park Special School with effect from 31 August 2010;
(ii) that approval be given to the statutory proposal published on 31 December 2009 to alter to Hay Lane Special School so that it:
(i) provides 210 places from 1 September 2010;
(ii) meets the range of needs set out in paragraph 3.2.11;
(iii) can admit all pupils who would, but for these proposals, have continued their education at Grove Park Special School on and after 1 September 2010; and
(iv) provides 235 places dependent on the completion of the rebuilding of the school, which is expected to be completed by the Summer of 2013. A decision on the rebuilding of the resultant expanded Hay Lane School is anticipated in April 2010.
Minutes:
The Lead Member, Children and Families introduced the report which sought the Executive’s determination of the statutory proposals (published on 31 December 2009) to discontinue Grove Park Special School and alter Hay Lane Special School. The representation period ended on 12 February 2010. The net effect of determining these proposals as recommended was to discontinue Grove Park Special School and to expand Hay Lane Special School so that all the children registered at Grove Park Special School can move to Hay Lane Special School. Councillor Wharton referred to joint working arrangements between the two schools that had increased over the recent past and that single management would prove more cost effective.
RESOLVED:-
(i) that approval be given to the statutory proposal published on 31 December 2009 to discontinue Grove Park Special School with effect from 31 August 2010;
(ii) that approval be given to the statutory proposal published on 31 December 2009 to alter to Hay Lane Special School so that it:
a) provides 210 places from 1 September 2010;
b) meets the range of needs set out in paragraph 3.2.11
c) can admit all pupils who would, but for these proposals, have continued their education at Grove Park Special School on and after 1 September 2010: and
d) provides 235 places dependent on the completion of the rebuilding of the school, which is expected to be completed by the Summer of 2013. A decision on the rebuilding of the resultant expanded Hay Lane School is anticipated in April 2010.