Surrey is set to benefit from £18,649,991 of funding to ensure children with SEND and alternative provision receive an education that meets their needs in high-quality environments for the years to come.
This Conservative Government is investing a record annual £850 million in councils to create new places for young people with SEND and AP in mainstream and special schools, with Surrey set to receive £18,649,991. This will provide specialist support for children with autism, learning difficulties and mobility difficulties to meet their extra needs.
In Walton, the new Hopescourt School is set to open providing high-quality specialist education for both autistic children and children who have communication and interaction needs. It will give residents in Elmbridge closer access to a new special school, reducing the need for children to make long journeys to and from school each day. This new school will create 80 additional specialist school places in its first year of opening, increasing to 200 by 2028/29, as an ‘all-through-school’ for students from reception through to post-16.
