Multi-million pound upgrades to Liverpool’s special educational needs schools is to be confirmed by the city council.
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. In a bid to address the issue, the local authority has developed a series of plans for school expansion.
When it meets for the first time tomorrow, Liverpool Council’s new cabinet will sign off on almost £20m plans to increase funding for a number of revised schemes to ease the burden on school placements. The report is being brought forward due to what a cabinet report described as “the urgency of delivering these projects by September 2023.”
