ITEM EX6 - ANNEX 2EXECUTIVE – 6 JULY 2004DEVELOPMENT OF COUNTYWIDE SPECIAL SCHOOL PROVISION INCLUDING WOODEATON MANOR AND IFFLEY MEAD SCHOOLS
Oxfordshire County Council, Learning & Culture PRESCRIBED ALTERATION TO NORTHFIELD 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 Northfield School, Knights Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford OX4 5DQ by a decrease in the number of pupils for whom the school is organised to make provision with effect from 1 January 2005. The established number of pupils at Northfield School is currently 80 pupils of which up to 20 are residential at Northfield Hostel. The provision at the school is for boys and girls age between 11 and 16, with emotional and behavioural difficulties. It is proposed that the number of pupils at Northfield School will be reduced to 60, with up to 20 residential places at Northfield Hostel. This proposal involves the redesignation of Woodeaton Manor as a school for 40 pupils with emotional/social difficulties requiring a therapeutic approach and will provide residential provision for up to 17 pupils. 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 roll 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. The Authority will maintain one countywide school for pupils with moderate learning difficulties at Iffley Mead School. The overall provision for pupils with emotional, social and behavioural difficulties within the County aged between 11 and 16 will increase from 80 to 100. 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 one month from the date of publication of this notice. Within a further two weeks 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Education Authority will send to the School Organisation Committee for the area, copies of all objections (and not withdrawn in writing) within the objection period, together with the Authority’s observations on them.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 28 May 2004. Explanatory note
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