Issue - meetings
Proposals to change Special Educational Need Designation and change published admission numbers (PAN) for Phoenix Arch School
Meeting: 19/07/2021 - Cabinet (Item 12)
This report provides Cabinet with a summary of the proposal to amend the special school designation of Phoenix Arch School from a designation of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) to ASD only, and the proposal to increase the Published Admission Number (PAN) within the school from 55 to a maximum of 68.
Additional documents:
- 12a. Appendix 1 - ‘Making significant changes (‘prescribed alterations’) to maintained schools, October 2018’, item 12
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- Webcast for Proposals to change Special Educational Need Designation and change published admission numbers (PAN) for Phoenix Arch School
Decision:
Cabinet RESOLVED:
(1) To approve the proposal to amend the designation of Phoenix Arch Special School from a designation of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) to ASD only.
(2) To approve the proposal to increase the Published Admission Number (PAN) within the school from 55 to a maximum of 68, subject to the school gaining planning permission for an expansion of the existing school building.
Minutes:
Councillor Stephens (Lead Member for Education, Skills and Employment) introduced a report outlining a proposal to amend the special school designation of Phoenix Arch School from a designation of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) to ASD school only and to increase the Published Admission Number (PAN) within the school from 55 to a maximum of 68.
Cabinet noted the increasing demand for Special Education Need provision for children with ASD within the borough, identified within the School Place Planning Strategy 2019-2023, which the proposal had been designed to assist in addressing along with the outcome of the informal and formal consultation process on the proposals, as detailed within section 4 of the report.
Cabinet were supportive of the proposals outlined having noted the benefit they would have in terms of increasing in-borough provision for children currently being educated out of borough with an Education, Health and Care Plan at primary level and also given that the last cohort of SEMH pupils had left the school in 2016 with subsequent development of the site to provide specialist provision for children with ASD.
Cabinet therefore RESOLVED:
(1) To approve the proposal to amend the designation of Phoenix Arch Special School from a designation of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) to ASD only.
(2) To approve the proposal to increase the Published Admission Number (PAN) within the school from 55 to a maximum of 68, subject to the school gaining planning permission for an expansion of the existing school building.