Purpose

Queen Elizabeth II Silver
Jubilee School (QEII School) is a special school in Horsham
offering Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
provision for children and young people aged between 2 and 19.
There is a need to increase the number of places at the School and
a design has been undertaken to enable this increase by the
establishment of a satellite provision to QEII on another site
owned by Horsham District Council and leased to the County Council.
The design work has illustrated how the building and site at Arun
House, Horsham, could expand the pupil places for QEII School by up
to 60 taking the current planned places from 120 to 180.
 
An initial
consultation was launched, in accordance with
Department for Education (DfE) guidance, to seek views on the
proposal to create a satellite site for QEII School. The
consultation ran during June and July and views and comments have
been collated from interested parties. 
Details of the consultation and the feedback received are set out
in section 4 of this report.  
 
The DfE guidance sets out the
stages of the process that should be undertaken when considering
expanding, by establishing a satellite site to a
school.  Having completed the first
stage, the initial consultation, the Cabinet Member is now asked to
consider the feedback received and consider whether to approve the
progression of the proposal to the next stage of the process
– publication of statutory notices.

Decision

The Cabinet Member for Children, Young People
and Learning has approved:
 

(1) The publication of
statutory proposals to establish a satellite site for Queen
Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee School and an expansion by up to 60
places taking the current planned places from 120 to 180, and

(2) The delegation of
authority to the Assistant Director (Education and Skills) to
determine whether the proposal to expand Queen Elizabeth II Silver
Jubilee School by 60 places should proceed, following consideration
of any representations received during the statutory consultation
stage.