(UK) Hartlepool: Secondary school seeks to expand SPED places

August 5, 2021, Hartlepool Mail: Classrooms plan approved to provide for children with special needs at Hartlepool's High Tunstall College of Science https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/politics/council/classrooms-plan-approved-to-provide-for-children-with-special-needs-at-hartlepools-high-tunstall-college-of-science-3336171 NE England

Plans have been approved to use a mobile unit at a Hartlepool secondary school for additional teaching space for children with moderate learning difficulties in the town. Proposals were submitted to Hartlepool Borough Council planning department earlier this year to retain a demountable classroom at High Tunstall College of Science to provide additional support to pupils in the town…. She said: “The proposal is considered to be in accordance with policy which seeks to support the expansion of community/education facilities and will allow for expanded classroom space…. “The mobile unit is now required for additional teaching space for children with moderate learning difficulties due to a shortfall of spaces in other Hartlepool schools.”…