29 Foundation/KS1 Social, Emotional and Mental Health Resource Base Provision - KEY DECISION PDF 83 KB
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Minutes:
The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director, People, which
provided a summary of the responses received during the statutory consultation
on the creation of a Resource Base at Beechwood
Primary School and Halton Lodge Primary School.
Executive Board had previously agreed that a statutory consultation be
undertaken on the proposal to create a Resource Base for Foundation/ Key Stage
1 Pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental
Health Needs (SEMH). The report set out a summary of the consultation results
for each of the schools proposed, as well as the options open to the Board as
the decision maker.
Reason(s) for
Decision
To provide a more
inclusive offer for pupils with SEMH giving them the opportunity to be educated
with support alongside their peers.
Alternative
Options Considered and Rejected
Developing only one
Foundation/Key Stage 1 SEMH Base and one Secondary Base was considered. No
secondary schools expressed an interest in providing an SEMH base.
Implementation
Date
September 2018.
RESOLVED: That
1) Foundation/Key
Stage 1 Social, Emotional and Mental Health Resource Provision Base is
developed at Beechwood Primary School;
2) Foundation
Key Stage 1 Social, Emotional and Mental Health Resource Base is developed at
Halton Lodge Primary School;
3) Specialist
Provision Capital funding is used to provide the facilities required for the
two bases; and
4) the
revenue costs of the new provision will be met from the High Needs budget.