School Placements

Dear Lily,

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Fatima Makken
Apprentice Information Governance Officer
Email: [email address]
01254 585852

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Dear Lily,

Thank you for your request for information regarding ‘School Placements’ (reference number 06848); please see our response attached/below. If you have any queries regarding your request for information then please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Expenditure data is publically available on the following link, however we are unable to report on this by age and category of need. The figures on this data share are often for a term for all the pupils who attend the school and may include some pupils over the age of 16:

https://datashare.blackburn.gov.uk/node/2

At the end of the 2019-20 academic year, in Reception to Year 11 all pupils who will have turned 16 by the 31st of August 2019 there were:

1 pupil with profound and multiple learning difficulty (PMLD)
2 pupils with moderate learning difficulty (MLD)
1 pupil with severe learning difficulty (SLD)
2 pupils with Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
8 pupils with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD)
48 pupils with Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH)

OF these, 4 are residential and the rest day places

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Kind Regards,

Heather Wolstenholme
Information Governance Officer
Email: [email address]
01254 222527

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Dear Lily

Please find response below to your additional question and response:

"Please could you provide a list of the schools where you place"

We are not able to provide you with a historical list. Below is the list of Independent and non-maintained Special Schools where we currently have pupils placed, which will be very similar to the previous period:

School Details Name School Type Description
Birtenshaw School non-maintained special (day)
Aurora Woodlands School Independent Day Special
Roselyn House School Independent Day Special
Cedar House School Independent Residential Special
Crookhey Hall School Independent Day Special
The Brambles School Independent Day Special
Cumberland School Independent Day Special
Bridgeway School Independent Day Special
Belmont School (Rawtenstall) Independent Day Special
Waterloo Lodge School Independent Day Special
Hall Cliffe School Independent Day Special
Raise Education and Wellbeing School Other Independent special school
Oliver House School Independent Day Special
Keyes Barn School Independent Day Special
Rossendale School Independent Day Special
Westmorland School Independent Day Special
Calder Lodge School Independent Day Special

Kind Regards

Fatima Makken
Information Governance Officer
Email: [email address]
01254 585852

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