Agenda item

Vikram Hansrani provided details of commissioned SEND and Alternative Provision (AP) places for academies for 2019/20. It was added that this detail had been used to provide information to the ESFA.

Increases in places at Arbour Vale from 290 to 304 and Ditton Park Academy from 8 to 12 places had been included. Following discussion with Foxborough Primary School there had been a reduction in their places from 8 to 4 and there had been an amendment to the designation at St Ethelbert’s Primary School to include ASD. Vikram Hansrani explained there was a move away from the term ‘complex need’.  It was noted that there would be increases for Littledown and Haybrook over two years, in order to meet demand.

Vikram Hansrani explained that further work was required to show the splits of places.  However, the LA was now in a better position to produce that information, which they had not been able to do previously.  It was planned this information would be ready to share at the next Schools Forum meeting scheduled for December.

Following a query about the 11 post-16 places at Haybrook College, Vikram Hansrani would follow this up with Jamie Rockman, adding that although the funding had changed, the 11 places were still there.  It was agreed the information needed to be captured. 

Vikram Hansrani would discuss the impact of four academic years increase with secondary Headteachers.