Issue details

East Sussex County Council has been taking action to provide sufficient places for the increase in pupils with Special Education Needs (SEN) and particularly the demand for special school places and high cost independent placements. The authority has a strategy of inclusion and is working with partners to encourage more children to be supported in mainstream schools.

The Council has identified, as part of the High Needs Block Funding Review, the need for more specialist facilities at primary and secondary mainstream schools. These facilities will cater for a broad range of lower level SEND needs where pupil’s requirements could be met in a specialist facility that includes appropriate access to mainstream provision.