Two new Bath schools to be built for Send children

The Department for Education will fund and build both Green Ways Academy, a school for children with special educational needs and disability (Send), and the Sulis Academy, which will offer alternative provision.

Currently, a lack of Send spaces in Bath and North East Somerset means the council is paying for taxis to drive children to schools across Somerset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and further afield.

Bath MP Wera Hobhouse said families in her city have been “waiting years” for the new schools.

She added: “There is still much more to do.

“I will be scrutinising the government’s long-anticipated and delayed Send white paper closely to see whether it delivers the real reforms needed to fix a broken system and ensure vulnerable children are properly supported.”