A Northumberland special school will be making a £5.5m move to a new base in Ponteland.
County bosses have signed off on plans to relocate Atkinson House from its current home in Seghill to the Richard Coates CE Primary School’s vacant former building, in time for the start of the next academic year this September.
The move will see the number of much-needed places the school can offer increase from 80 to 100 and allow it to admit girls as well as boys – creating the first dedicated educational provision for female pupils in Northumberland with social, emotional and mental health needs.