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ITEM EX6 - ANNEX 1

EXECUTIVE – 6 JULY 2004

DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTYWIDE SPECIAL SCHOOL PROVISION INCLUDING WOODEATON MANOR AND IFFLEY MEAD SCHOOLS

Oxfordshire County Council, Learning & Culture

PRESCRIBED ALTERATION TO WOODEATON MANOR SCHOOL

Notice is hereby given in accordance with section 31 (1) (b) of the School Standards Framework Act 1998 (the Act) that Oxfordshire County Council intend to make a prescribed alteration to Woodeaton Manor School, Woodeaton, OX3 9TS by a change in the type of special educational needs for which the school is organised to make provision with effect from 1 September 2004. This will involve the redesignation of Woodeaton Manor as a school for 40 pupils with emotional/social difficulties requiring a therapeutic approach. There will be residential provision for up to 17 of these pupils. The provision at the school will be for boys and girls aged between 11 and 16.

Woodeaton Manor School is currently designated for 80 day and 35 residential pupils with moderate learning difficulties aged between 5 and 16. There will be 15 pupils on the school role in September 2004. It is proposed that the needs of these children are reviewed with their parents to see whether they should stay at Woodeaton Manor School or transfer to Iffley Mead School, Iffley Turn, Oxford, OX4 4DU. Children currently attending Woodeaton Manor School will continue to be provided with transport in accordance with the County Council’s policy.

Further details about these proposals can be obtained from Gillian Tee, Head of Children’s Services, Macclesfield House, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1NN.

Any person may object to these proposals.

Objections may be submitted in writing to Michael Mill, Education Officer (School Organisation), Albion House, Littlegate Street, Oxford, OX1 1JN, within two months from the date of publication of this notice.

Within a further month the Local Education Authority will send to the School Organisation Committee for the area, copies of all objections (and not withdrawn in writing) within the objection period, together with the authority’s observations on them.

Signed Keith Bartley, Director of Learning & Culture.

Date 5 May 2004.

Explanatory note

  1. The authority will maintain one countywide school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties at Iffley Mead School. It is anticipated that with the transfer of any pupils from Woodeaton there will be up to 119 planned places at Iffley Mead School. This is within the number of places for which the school makes provision.

  2. The established number of pupils at Northfield School is currently 80 pupils and statutory notices are being published in relation to the reduction of the number of pupils at Northfield School to 60 with 12 residential places at Northfield Hostel.

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