Decision details

Resolved:

That Cabinet agrees that,

1.    the County Council adopts the proposed new model for preventing permanent exclusions from primary schools.

2.    the County Council engages with Head Teachers in Warwickshire to promote the new model of support for permanently excluded primary learners and those at risk of exclusion.

3.    the County Council ceases placing any new pupils in the two ‘Link’ provisions with immediate effect.

4.    the County Council commences consultation with current staffing of the Links, with a view to closing both sites at the end of the Spring Term 2020.

5.    the Strategic Director for Resources, in consultation with the Strategic Director for People, is authorised to negotiate the inclusion of the Kingswood accommodation within the Inspire Education Trust lease with a view to ensuring that the site is used to enhance the Haven Communication & Interaction Specialist Resource Provision to ensure it can meet the needs as an all through Key Stage 1 and 2 primary resource and to complete any necessary documents to give effect to the agreed arrangements.

6.    the County Council commissions 14 fte places across the County, each with an allocated key worker, for primary aged permanently excluded children and those at risk of exclusion. These will be time limited (one term), with a focus on nurturing restorative intervention to inform the identification of the child’s next setting (mainstream or specialist). The commission will include transport and support for transition into the identified next setting.