A Department for Education proposal to build a school for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) across top grade farmland should be approved, planners have recommended, after years of calls the provision was desperately needed in the area.
North Yorkshire Council’s strategic planning committee will on Tuesday consider the multi-million pound scheme to provide education for pupils aged three to 19, south of of the A63 Hull Road, Osgodby, near Selby, some six years after the authority bid for Government funding for the development. In 2018, a council press release relayed a community representative stating “Selby families have struggled for years with having to bus youngsters to schools in other areas”.
The parents and children with neurodiversity and disabilities already have to fight far too much, this school should be a given not another fight.” Another parent added: “Our children are in great need of a SEND school in our area rather than sending them miles away via taxi to get the appropriate schooling. Schools and local family’s have been put under great pressure and strain to cope and manage these children and this would help everyone.
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