BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS TO BE HELD DURING OCTOBER 2008
Liverpool Donor Centre Unit 6, 2 Moorfields (Entrance on Dale Street)
Liverpool
Monday/Thursday/Friday: 8.15am-3.30pm
Tuesday/Wednesday: 8.15am-7.30pm
Saturday: 9.15am-2.30pm
Monday 6.10.08 Wesley Methodist Church Hall
Corporation Street
ST HELENS
10.30am-7.30pm
Tuesday 7.10.08 St John Stone’s Parish Centre
7 Sandbrook Way
AINSDALE
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Thursday 9.10.08 St Patrick’s Church Hall
Marshside Road
CHURCHTOWN
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Friday 10.10.08 St John’s Parochial Centre
Greenway Road
Appleton Village
WIDNES
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Monday 13.10.08 Masonic Hall
Kingsway
WIDNES
10.00am-12.00pm & 2.00pm-4.15pm
Tuesday 14.10.08 Methodist Church Hall
Clipsley Lane/Station Road
HAYDOCK
10.30am-7.30pm
Wednesday 15.10.08 St George’s Social Centre
Station Road
MAGHULL
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Tuesday 21.10.08 All Hallow’s Church Hall
1 Greenhill Road
ALLERTON
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Thursday 23.10.08 St Mary’s Millenium Centre
Meadow Lane
WEST DERBY
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Friday 24.10.08 Harrison Hall
Harrison Drive
WALLASEY VILLAGE
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Sunday 26.10.08 Holy Trinity Parochial Centre
Hoghton Street
SOUTHPORT
2.00pm-4.15pm
Monday 27.10.08 Wesley Methodist Church Hall
Corporation Street
ST HELENS
10.30am-7.30pm
Tuesday 28.10.08 All Saint’s Social Centre
Off High Street
GOLBORNE
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Wednesday 29.10.08 Bootle Town Hall
Trinity Road/Oriel Road
BOOTLE
10.00am-12.00pm & 2.00pm-4.15pm
Thursday 30.10.08 Village Hall
School lane
KNOWSLEY
10.00am-12.00pm & 2.00pm-4.15pm
Friday 31.10.08 Westbourne Hall Community Centre
Westbourne Road
WEST KIRBY
2.00pm-4.00pm & 5.30pm-7.30pm
Parents consulted on special education
PARENTS are
being invited to have their say on plans to invest millions of
pounds in secondary special education in Liverpool.
The city
council is launching a major consultation on plans to transform
special education provision in the city, as part of the £485 million
Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.
Under the proposals, many of the city’s secondary special schools
will be co-located with mainstream schools, as part of the council’s
commitment to educate all pupils alongside their peers whenever
possible.
It means children
with special needs will be able to benefit from the same learning
facilities that mainstream pupils enjoy, including modern ICT
equipment, science labs and sports facilities. Pupils with
more complex needs for whom co-location with mainstream pupils is
not appropriate will still receive the high level of specialist
provision they need. And special schools will receive
significant investment across the board, providing improved, 21st
century facilities which better target the individual needs of
children and young people.
Parents are now being invited to air their views on the proposals.
If approved, the plans will pave the way for further significant
investment in special schools across the city by 2013.
The city council’s executive member for children’s services,
Councillor Keith Turner, said:- “Liverpool’s Building Schools
for the Future programme is giving us a once-in-a-generation
opportunity to transform education in the city.
We’re consulting
extensively with schools, parents and pupils to make sure we get it
right.
The plans for special schools are about giving every
young person with special needs the best facilities, enabling them
to be educated alongside their peers in mainstream schools wherever
possible while enhancing the level of specialist education they
receive.
If approved, these plans will result in massive investment in our
special schools, providing every single child with special needs a
modern, 21st century education, tailor-made to meet their needs.”
The council has already consulted with every secondary special
school over the plans and has received the broad support of all
governing bodies.
The council has also looked at trends over the
past 5 years to identify what special school places will be needed
in the city by the year 2013. They have found:-
• There will be an increased need for places for secondary age
pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and less need for
places for secondary age pupils with Complex Learning Difficulties (CLD).
• There will be less need for places for secondary aged pupils with
Physical Disability (PD) with most of these pupils being
accommodated in mainstream settings.
• There will be an increased need for places for secondary aged
pupils with Severe Learning Difficulty (SLD) or Profound and
Multiple Learning Difficulty (PMLD).
3 special schools - Hope, Lower Lee and Ernest Cookson - fall under
what is known as “Wave 2” of the government scheme, with work on
brand new buildings due to be completed between 2009 and 2011, while
the rest fall under “Wave 6”, and are expected be completed by 2013.
The plans being consulted on are based on the following proposals:-
Hope School, L27 co-locating with Gateacre Community Comprehensive.
Lower Lee and Abbott’s Lea schools, L25, co-locating with St Francis
Xavier’s College.
Ernest Cookson, L12 would co-locate with West Derby Comprehensive.
Palmerston, L25, would co-locate with the proposed new Garston
Academy by 2013, and additional places for children with physical
disabilities would be provided at Broadgreen High.
Sandfield Park, L12, would offer more an increased number of places
for children with severe learning difficulties from September 2009.
Redbridge High, L10, would co-locate with Fazakerley High School and
Bank View High, L10.
Ashfield School, L16, would re-locate to the south site of the
current Bank View High Special School.
Clifford Holroyde, L14 which serves children with behaviour,
emotional and social difficulties would be maintained on its current
site as the only non co-located special school.
Executive Director for Children’s Services, Stuart Smith, said:- “These proposals for special secondary education are designed to
complement our plans for mainstream secondary schools under BSF.
They are aimed at providing special needs students with a high
quality, inclusive education which gives them every opportunity to
reach their full potential.
We want parents to be fully
on-board with the plans and will be working closely with them to get
their views and feedback.”
The special schools consultation runs until Friday 14 November 2008.
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