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Peterborough has 3rd highest rate of statementing in country 4 pupils with Special Educational Needs!
The provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN) is under review and a new SEN strategy is due to be developed and implemented in Peterborough sometime during 2013. Already the local authority have discovered: • Too much funding is being targeted at high needs children. This money is arguably better spent in early intervention services. […]
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Peterborough City Council faces “sufficiency shortfall” due to extension of free early education places!
Members of the City Councils Creating Opportunities and Tackling Inequalities Scrutiny Committee were recently informed: “From 2014, the government is proposing to extend free entitlement (15 hours) to 2 year olds. This support will be targeted at 40% of the children nationally with eligibility criteria focused on economic disadvantaged and those with SEN. In Peterborough this is […]
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Councillor confronts cabinet member over “significant pressures on the school system”
At the latest meeting of the Creating Opportunities and Tackling Inequalities Scrutiny Committee local LIB DEM ward councillor Darren Fower, asked the Tory Cabinet Member for Education, what he would say to those who suggest his decision to close schools like Honeyhill and Bretton Woods, was a mistake given the city’s expected shortfall over the […]
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Norwood School Field gates to be opened for remainder of the Summer Holidays
Following concerns raised by local residents, about the play field to the rear of Norwood School and that it had been consistently locked, the City Council have now confirmed that they will be unlocked for the remainder of the Summer holidays, allowing members of the community to access it, instead of jumping over the fence. […]
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£141,000+ 4 Schools in South Werrington & North Gunthorpe
Local Liberal Democrat councillor for South Werrington and North Gunthorpe, Darren Fower, has welcomed the coalition Government’s announcement that the final Pupil Premium figures for Norwood Primary School, Welbourne, Gunthorpe Primary, Ken Stimpson and Werrington Primary School, will see each school receive an extra £488 for each child on free school meals that they have on their roll. The actual figures for […]
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Time Running Out to Apply for Secondary School Places
Parents of children who are due to move up to secondary school in September 2012 have until midnight on Monday 31 October 2011 to apply for a school place. Applications for children who were born between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001 can be made online on Peterborough City Council’s website Jonathan Lewis, Assistant […]
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