(UK) Scunthorpe: New special school for N. Lincolnshire

July 24, 2020, Grimsby Live: Plans revealed for new school in Scunthorpe and academy trust selected to run it https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/plans-revealed-new-school-scunthorpe-4356136 (NE England) Plans are in place for a new school in Scunthorpe for post-16 students with special education needs…. Wellspring Academy Trust, which already has numerous special and alternative academies, has been approved by the Government as the provider, following a successful bid by North Lincolnshire Council to establish a new free special school. And the Government has written to Scunthorpe MP Holly Mumby-Croft to confirm it will be moving onto the next stage of the project…. Welspring Academy Trust, which runs Beacon Academy in Cleethorpes, is in charge of 20 academies, mainly across the Midlands. The letter from Education Ministers Baroness Berridge and Vicky Ford said: "Following from the Secretary of State for Education’s approval of North Lincolnshire Council’s bid to establish a new special free school, we are pleased to inform you that Wellspring Academy Trust have been approved to run the new free school….