Issue - meetings

Wey House is the only primary special school for social emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) in the Surrey area, currently catering for key stage 2 pupils only.  It provides for boys who are unable to manage the school environment successfully without a high level of targeted intervention and support.

The school is located in Bramley which is based in the south west quadrant of Surrey and it caters for approximately 9 pupils per year and it has a ‘good’ Ofsted rating.  The school is usually oversubscribed and there are a significant number of requests for SEMH provision for key stage 1 pupils.

When Wey House School has no places available the alternative option is to place children in the non-maintained and independent (NMI) sector at an average of £48,327 per annum for each pupil placed.

Officers are proposing to extend the age range of Wey House School to incorporate some key stage 1 places and expand pupil numbers in all year groups from the current total of 36 planned places in key stage 2 only to 55 across the primary age range. 

It was agreed that the change in age range and increase in pupil numbers at Wey House School be approved, taking into account the outcome of the informal and statutory consultation period.