To approve expenditure on Brookfield Special School (Brookfield) to ensure that there is high quality sustainable special educational accommodation for children and young people with social emotional and mental health (SEMH) special needs in Herefordshire.

The Brookfield improvement project seeks to achieve; better school buildings compliance with DfE building bulletin 104 for special educational needs settings, more robust fire evacuation buildings compliance, the release of a council owned split site facility at Symonds Street, the capacity to deliver the full statutory curriculum at Brookfield, and improved accommodation for girls with SEMH needs. This will ensure that there is high quality sustainable educational accommodation for children and young people with SEMH special needs in Herefordshire. This report seeks cabinet agreement to draw down the funding allocated in the capital programme to progress the project to completion, in line with the business plan at Appendix 1.