New school places, EHCPs, Health & Relax… 24th February 2018 Dear All Wow! There’s a lot going on. Please take the time to read through – be guided by our headings…
New school places for SEND – Parent Meeting New Richmond and Kingston school places for children with SEND Thursday 1st March – 10am to 12noon at the Doubletree Hilton, Kingston (close to the Seven Kings car park) Please come to the meeting SEND Family Voices are hosting this Thursday where AfC (Achieving for Children) will present their proposals for expanding places for children with SEND in mainstream schools. These places will be in so-called specialist resource provisions (SRPs) and will include a specialist teacher in charge, therapies and educational psychology support as well as bespoke accommodation. The proposals represent a significant expansion of existing capacity, with a potential increase in Kingston of up to 75 places in primaries and nursery and in excess of 25 places at secondary. In Richmond the current proposals encompass approximately 45 new primary and nursery places and 20+ at secondary.
These proposals are not the complete picture, more is still being considered. The plans will be of particular interest to parents who are looking for places for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Complex Learning Needs, MLD/ASD, SEMH (social, emotional and mental health), and SLCN (speech, language and communication needs). There are also some plans for places that would support Hearing Impairment / Communication with Associated Learning Needs, Social Communication Needs, and SpLD (specific learning disabilities e.g. dyslexia).
If parents feel that there are groups that are not included that should be then it would be very helpful to feed this in as part of the consultation. AfC are very keen to have parent feedback to further shape their current plans, hence the public meeting on Thursday where parents can hear directly from Matthew Paul, the AfC Manager running the project and Sarah Herbert the lead School Improvement Advisor for SEN in AfC. For anyone who is unable to attend the meeting there will be additional opportunities to comment on the plans before and after the meeting via an online consultation process (we will send details of this once it is available). If there is sufficient demand we will also try to organise an evening meeting where parents can hear the plans directly and comment on them.