Share your views on additional school places at Alt Bridge School, Huyton

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Share your views on additional school places at Alt Bridge School, Huyton

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Knowsley Council is consulting on plans to expand Alt Bridge School in Huyton, providing more school places for children with an Education Health Care Plan.

The consultation opens today (21 November 2024) and will run until 20 December 2024.

Alt Bridge School in Huyton provides essential educational support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), particularly those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and moderate learning difficulties (MLD).

To meet the increasing demand for special school places in Knowsley, the Council is proposing to expand Alt Bridge School to offer more high-quality educational opportunities for children and young people in the borough. Alt Bridge is an established special school which has the space to support an expansion and create more school places. This will mean that more children can access education closer to home and provides greater choice for parents.

The Council has approved funding for this proposal and is now consulting with the public, as required by the prescribed alterations process.

The plans include:-

• Two modular buildings to enhance classroom capacity and facilities on the main school site, due for September 2025.
• A dedicated satellite site in Kirkby for post-16 learners, from 2026, providing a focused environment for older students to prepare for adulthood.
• It is estimated that the project will use £5.060m of High Needs Provision Capital Allocation funding. This investment provides long term value for money, given it is providing additional capacity in maintained special provision, which is typically significantly more cost efficient compared to use of the independent schools.

The improvements would be implemented in a phased manner as follows:-

• Phase 1a - The construction of a modular building solution to create 20 additional places, combined with essential car park and drop-off improvements (to be delivered by September 2025);
• Phase 1b - An additional modular building, creating 10 places from September 2025 and 20 places from September 2026;
• Phase 2 - Relocation of post-16 provision to the Kirkby Centre to free up space at Alt Bridge School (to be delivered by Easter 2026); and,
• Phase 3 - Internal remodelling of the space released from Phase 2 on the Alt Bridge School site to create at least an additional 80 places (to be delivered by September 2026). The introduction of the 80 places will be phased across subsequent years.

You can share your views on the proposals from 21 November until 20 December 2024 by:-

Emailing - SEND Admin: [email protected]

Writing to - FAO SEND Team, Knowsley Council, PO Box 21, Archway Road, Huyton, L36 9YU

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