Rebuilding Schools 2025-07-21
2025-07-21
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Springhead sixth form in Scarborough is rated outstanding but faces significant physical infrastructure challenges, including housing students in an unsuitable building due to overcrowding. The school provides education for students with complex special educational needs.
Springhead sixth form in Scarborough has been rated outstanding for the education and care it provides for students with complex special educational needs and disabilities. However, the staff are amazing but the sixth form is housed in an old and unsuitable building where one student was tutored in a modified corridor due to overcrowding. What steps is the Minister taking to ensure that pupils with special educational needs are educated in school buildings that can match those needs?
We have increased funding to improve the condition of schools to £2.1 billion for 2025-26, which includes more than £7 million for North Yorkshire to invest in its maintained schools, including Springhead. Additionally, North Yorkshire has been allocated £6.8 million for 2025-26 to provide suitable and accessible school places for pupils with SEND who require alternative provision.
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Woodfield school in Bilton, which was meant to open as a specialist school for children with autism, faced delays opening until September this year. The question seeks confirmation of the opening timeline.
A number of years ago, Woodfield school in Bilton in my constituency was closed. It has been rebuilt as a specialist school for children with autism. Originally meant to open in September last year, it was delayed until September this year. Will the Minister meet me and confirm whether it will open on time this September?
I am happy to meet the hon. Member.
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confirmation of opening timeline
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