School Organisation The Pines Special School

Overview

Birmingham City Council, as the Local Authority for Birmingham is proposing to make the following changes to The Pines Special School, a foundation special school for pupils with a Statement of Educational Need or Education and Health Care Plan for Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC):

• Increase in the number of  pupil places that the school can offer from 190  to 230 with effect from 1^st September 2019.

The school can currently offer up to 190 places for pupils with a Statement of Need or Education and Health Care Plan for Autistic Spectrum Condition.

Of these 190 places, 130 are for primary aged pupils and up to 60 are for secondary aged pupils.

The proposal is to increase the total number of places the school can offer up to 230. It is intended that the additional 40 places will be for secondary aged pupils, increasing the number of secondary places that the school can offer from 60 to 100.

It is proposed that the increase in places will be effective from 1st September 2019 and will be created on a phased basis.

Why your views matter

There is a process that we must follow to make these sorts of changes to schools.

Part of that process is formal public consultation which lasts for 4 weeks (known as the "representation period").

This formal consultation is open between 15th March and 12th April 2019.

Full details of the changes are explained in the proposal document linked below.

We are keen to receive your comments on the proposal and you can comment online here until 12th April 2019.

What happens next

At the end of this formal consultation (representation period) : The "Results" section and the "We asked, you said, we did" section of this web page will be updated with a summary of the responses received. The detailed comments will be anonymised and forwarded with a report to the decision makers at Birmingham City Council. The decision makers will make a decision on the proposal within two months from the end of the representation period (12th June 2019).

Birmingham City Council, as the Local Authority, in exercise of powers conferred on it, has determined to implement this proposal as detailed. A link to the decision report is available on this webpage.