Parents and carers of children with autism are fighting to keep a school's specialist provision open after it announced closure. Families were informed in January that Chipping Sodbury Access Centre, based at Chipping Sodbury School in South Gloucestershire, planned to close for financial reasons.
Parents have now started a campaign to save it and will be raising their concerns at a South Gloucestershire Council meeting this evening (February 15). In their online petition the Access Centre is described as offering a “unique” and “life-changing” provision.
Tara Jepson, whose child attends the centre, said they may be left with no other choice but to home school - despite the disruption and financial impact such a decision would have on their family life. She said: “It’s short-sighted and doesn’t make financial sense, I would have to give up my job.
