Council agrees to further investment to expand specialist provision in Warwickshire schools

Additional support has been approved by Warwickshire County Council’s Cabinet to the Education Capital Programme.

This will lead to an expanded specialist resourced provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The Cabinet agreed to allocate over £320k from the High Needs Provision Capital Allocation to establish new resourced provisions at three county primary schools and to increase places at an existing provision in Rugby.

The council stated that this will see:

"A new 10-place resourced provision for pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) whose primary needs are communication and interaction (C&I) established at Binley Woods Primary School, supported by £118k of capital funding.

A new 8-place Communication and Interaction resourced provision at Brownsover Community School, supported by £87k of capital funding.

Subject to Department for Education approval of a required ‘significant change’ application, a new 8-place Communication and Interaction resourced provision at St Oswald’s CofE Academy, supported by £116k of capital funding.

An immediate increase of two places at the existing Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) resourced provision at Paddox Primary School, raising capacity from 14 to 16 places."