Feb 16, 2023, Bracknell News: School plan for special needs children given go ahead https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/23327385.school-plan-special-needs-children-given-go-ahead/
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The Odyssey Education Group is a private school which provides teaching for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
In preceding months, the group submitted an application to convert Buckhurst Court, a single storey office building off London Road outside Wokingham into a special needs school.
The conversion project was discussed at a Wokingham Borough Council planning meeting.
It was also noted that a majority of the pupils going to the school will actually be coming from Reading Borough, as a letter of intent submitted by the application outlines Odyssey Education Group's contract with Reading childrens services company Brighter Futures for Children to provide SEND education.
To that point, cllr Rachelle Shepherd-DuBey (Liberal Democrats, Winnersh) said: "I would say that we definitely need SEND places in Wokingham, we are short of them and we have a fair number of students here that really need it, hopefully you're going to be accepting some Wokingham students in this place as well."
Cllr Stephen Conway (Liberal Democrats, Twyford) argued that SEND school places are needed throughout the area.
He said: "It's clearly providing a very important need and the pupils that go there will clearly benefit enormously from this opportunity."
Cllr Conway agreed with Bailey-Biggs that issues cllr Gee raised could be answered through planning conditions….
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