Around 500 new school places are to be created across Liverpool as part of a multi-million pound investment into the city’s special needs education provision.
Liverpool Council’s cabinet is to pump almost £20m into plans to increase funding for a number of revised schemes to ease the burden on school placements. Hundreds of new places are to be created at a total of four sites in the coming months, including at the former Palmerston School on Beaconsfield Road and a new build for Princes Primary School.
In the last four years, the number of children across the city with educational health care plans (EHCPs) has risen by almost 50%, with more than 4,000 young people recorded.
