Nov 3, 2021, Yorkshire Live: Kirklees Council spent £40,000 [$55K] on consultants to find sites for new schools https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/council-spent-40k-consultants-find-22046811?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar&fbclid=IwAR1R1xTOrMU71PVPkZt_KiuPWclw4Kv-ScD4c1IF9cKvD-mBIiyvsuqbpvY
Indicative plans for a new special school for autistic youngsters on the site of Almondbury Community School, which was closed by Kirklees Council in 2019.
Two new special schools – one a centre for autism – are to be built in Kirklees.
Council chiefs said spending £36m [$49M] was “about doing the right thing” for some of the most vulnerable young people in the borough and creating a suitable environment for them….
Woodley will transfer to the site of the former Almondbury Community School (ACS), which closed in 2019 and is to be bulldozed.
It will become a £21m [$29M] facility catering for youngsters aged 5-18 with autism. Part of that money will go on buying out a contractor for the Public Private Partnership (PPP), which could be anywhere from £3m to £6m.
It will offer places for up to 132 pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health Difficulties (SEMH)….
The council is building the new centres to boost the number of special school places in the borough and prevent children and young people having to be educated outside Kirklees at an average placement cost of £58,000 [$79K] – an annual cost of £8m a year.
It says demand for school places is expected to increase over the next two years from 63 to 132 at Joseph Norton Academy and from 12 to 179 at Woodley….
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