To approve the spend of the High Needs Provision Capital Grant to extend our inclusion offer in mainstream schools, increase places for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and to improve Alternative Provision (AP) education arrangements

That:

a)    To approve the spend of the High Needs Provision Capital Grant (£4.23million) to extend our inclusion offer in mainstream schools, increase capacity for children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and to improve Alternative Provision (AP) education arrangements

b)    To delegate to the Service Director for Education, Learning and Skills all operational decisions necessary to deliver a programme of works including varying such programme; and

c)     Should the Council receive additional high needs grant funding from central

           Government or there is an underspend on current education grant funded      capital projects, authority is granted to add this to the budget by the Section 151 officer to provide additional funding for the programme should it be deemed necessary by the

Service Director for Education, Learning and Skills.

1. Not to allocate the funding from the High Needs Capital Grant. This is not recommended as both SEND and AP is currently over-capacity, and the existing PRU buildings are in a poor state of repair, and there are no options to extend the current sites.