(UK) Gloucestershire: New school for autism; existing ones 'are reaching their maximum capacity'

Mar 29, 2018, (UK) Gloucestershire Gazette: Special free school to open at Marlwood School http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/16126325.Special_free_school_to_open_on_Marlwood_School_site_after_successful_council_bid/ A NEW special free school will soon be set up in Alveston, following a successful bid from South Gloucestershire Council. The school, which will be the second of its kind in South, will be based on the Marlwood School site, offering 112 places over a three-year period for children aged two-to-19-years-old with severe learning difficulties, autism spectrum disorder and with profound and multiple learning difficulties. It is planned that the school, which will be run by the Enable Trust on the Castle School Education Trust (CSET) site, will open in 2019, and in its first year of opening will provide for a total of 32 places for nursery and primary school age children…. “We have already supported the expansion of existing special schools at New Siblands in Thornbury and Warmley Park in Warmley, but they are reaching their maximum capacity. …