(UK) Potters Bar: New SPED school opens; $40K US/student with severe disabilities

Aug 13, 2018, Welwyn Hatfield Times: New school for children with special educational needs opens in Potters Bar http://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/education/potters-bar-clinic-school-opens-for-children-with-sen-1-5649213 A £31,200-a-year [$40K US dollars] special educational needs (SEN) day school has opened in Potters Bar, with a move to purpose-built classrooms in September. Potters Bar Clinic School opened on July 1 in its current premises at the clinic on Barnet Road, where its current pupils are inpatients. The independent special school is owned by private mental healthcare provider Elysium Healthcare, which also owns Potters Bar Clinic and Rhodes Hospital School in Hatfield. The majority of the pupils, aged between 11 and 19, have social, emotional and mental health needs. They have been using the hospital ward breakout areas as their classrooms, but by September 1 they will have their classes in purpose-built accommodation on the second floor of the clinic. … The mixed-gender school, which will exclusively serve children with SEN, can accommodate 30 pupils and will have seven full-time and four part-time teaching staff. … The Ofsted report states that all 30 pupils will be “paid for by a local authority with a SEN statement or an education, health and care (EHC) plan”. The Welwyn Hatfield Times has contacted Herts County Council to affirm whether this will cover the full annual fee of £31,200.