Issue - meetings

[To consider the outcome of consultation and approve the adoption of policy as part of the Vision for School Organisation]

1.      That the High Needs Provision Framework be approved.

2.      That the outcome of consultation on the draft High Needs Provision Framework be noted.

3.      That the amendments (in Section 5) made to the draft High Needs Provision Framework following consultation be noted.

Councillor Dr Michael Hardacre presented the report on the outcome of a wide ranging public consultation on the draft High Needs Provision Framework and requested that Cabinet adopts the strategic policy document. Approval of the Framework would enable the publication of a clear and transparent structure to guide the future development of special educational needs and disabilities education for those children in the city who need more specialist provision. The policy would help create where possible in good and outstanding schools, a special resource base so that children with special educational needs could be integrated into mainstream education. It also enabled the creation of specialist accommodation in special schools for those children for whom mainstream education would not be a realistic possibility.

Councillor John Reynolds, in his capacity as Cabinet Member for Children and Young People congratulated Councillor Dr Hardacre and the senior offices within the Education service for their work on the framework and policy.  It would mean that the Council could continue to support the city’s children and young people and make sure that as many of them as possible remain in mainstream education.

Resolved:

1.    That the High Needs Provision Framework be approved.

2.    That the outcome of consultation on the draft High Needs Provision Framework be noted.

3.    That the amendments (in Section 5) made to the draft High Needs Provision Framework following consultation be noted.