Bradford District has experienced a significant increase in demand for SEND provision in the last 10 years. Demand for SEND provision across the district is projected to grow and by 2019/2020 a minimum of 354 additional specialist places will be required
across all sectors in the Bradford District.
An initial (pre-publication) consultation phase was held from 14 March to 11 April 2019. This was to share and gather information on the development of further specialist provision places to enhance the current specialist provision offer across the district
and inform the proposals moving forward. The results of this consultation phase can be found on the link below.
In 2019/2020 the Council and a number of academies are proposing to increase the amount of specialist places available, to meet the current and future needs of children and young people with a range of SEND.
We are proposing to deliver this through a range of services; by expanding and developing further specialist provision to enhance the network of special schools, early years enhanced specialist provision (EYESPs), designated specialist provision (DSPs) and
by creating new resourced provision (RP) places in mainstream schools.
The Council is working closely with the academies and is carrying out the academy school consultations on behalf of the academy trusts alongside the consultation process for maintained schools. However the final decision on the academies proposals rests
with the DfE and the Regional Schools Commissioner not the Councils Executive as it does with LA maintained proposals.
We are now seeking the views of all stakeholders and interested parties on the Council’s and the academies’ proposals. Further information and details on these proposals can be found by visiting the below links:
Bradford Council’s Website
Local Offer Website
Bradford Schools Online Website
We are holding a number of public consultation meetings as follows:
- Tuesday, 11th June : 13.45 - 14.45pm @ Bradford Metropolitan District Council, City Hall, Ernest Saville Room, Market Street, Bradford, BD1 1HY.
- Friday, 14th June: 10:00 - 11:00am @ Keighley Library Annexe, Spencer Street, Keighley, BD21 2BN.
Your views are important to us; please take a few minutes to answer our short questionnaire by following the link below:
Survey
If you do not have access to the internet or you would prefer a paper copy of the questionnaire or documentation, please contact: 01274 438260 or email:
SENDPlacesConsultation@bradford.gov.uk
The representation period will end on Thursday, 20th June 2019, please ensure we have your comments and/or completed questionnaire by this date at the latest.