Views for complex needs schools
WEST Norfolk residents are being asked to help shape the future of special education needs across the county.
Norfolk County Council wants to transform the way it supports children with special needs by improving access to services and locating facilities closer to where they are needed – and is calling on the public to help.
A consultation has been launched to ask children, young people, parents, schools and people working with children where they believe complex needs schools and specialist resource bases should be placed.
All the county's special schools are to become complex needs schools and will aim to provide placements for children within the area they live.
They will also be able to support a wider range of children and young people with special educational needs, between the ages of two and 19.
Units within mainstream schools will also become specialist resource bases and will be remodelled, and where necessary, relocated. Each base will have enough facilities to support between eight and ten full-time, or equivalent, children or young people.
The county council has made assurances that children and young people will not be moved from an existing provision if that isn't their choice.
The consultation, which runs until Sunday, December 9, will suggest possible sites for the complex needs schools and specialist resource bases and will also ask the public where they believe such resources should be placed.
A drop-in event as part of the consultation will be held at Swaffham Assembly Rooms today (Thursday) between 10am and 7pm.
Paper copies of the consultation can be requested from the council's SEN Strategy Team by calling 0844 800 8001 or email: SENstrategy@norfolk. gov.uk
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