(UK) Coventry: Special school approved; 35 students/15 staff; "help tackle SEN 'crisis'"
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Dec 22, 2025, Coventry Telegraph: New special needs school in Coventry to help tackle SEN 'crisis'
The new school will improve provision for SEN students in Coventry
Coventry City Council have approved plans for a new Special Educational Needs school on George Eliot Road in Coventry.
What is understood to have previously been a ‘nursery/care home/council training centre’ will be turned into a school that will provide for 35 students. Plans were submitted in October and approved last week for the single-storey building.
The site currently sits at the edge of where the Coventry Canal runs through Foleshill, which is part of the Coventry Canal Conservation Area. This means that permission was required to ensure that it would not affect the character of the area. . .
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The school are ‘looking to help’ Special Needs children who have been unable to find school provision, some of whom have been out of school for over 2 years.
Currently these children are provided for by the council, but will now also be receiving educational provisions as the applicants have registered with Ofsted.
Provision for SEN students has been labelled a ‘crisis’ by the government in recent years, the planning consultants stated in a report. According to this report, there is an ‘unmet need to cater for’ local SEN students, and the development of this new school will help address this need.
The also school proposes to employ approximately 15 members of staff, who will also facilitate all transport to and from school via minibus. The report suggests that this arrangement will benefit neighbouring residents due to fewer overall trips to and from the site..” . . .
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