Admissions Policy
Admissions guidance:
Lansbury Bridge School is a community special school maintained by St Helens Council. The school makes provision for 238 pupils aged between four and fourteen. The school makes provision for boys and girls with complex special educational needs who have an Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP) including physical disabilities, medical difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders / conditions, and learning difficulties.
Places at Lansbury Bridge school are allocated differently to mainstream schools.
All of our pupils have an EHCP (Education Health and Care Plan) before being allocated a place.
An EHCP is a local authority document. Admissions are allocated via the local authority SEND team who will carry out an official consultation in line with the SEND code of practice.
As a special school we will be consulted and asked our professional opinion about whether we can meet need, whether we have space for the child within their cohort and whether we have a relevant peer group.
To support forming this opinion we will read the child's plan and may complete a suitability visit, invite parent to a without prejudice visit of our school or attend the child's annual review in their current setting.
We are over capacity on numbers at our school. We therefore work closely with mainstream colleagues so offer outreach support and training to support in finding alternative solutions for meeting the educational needs of a child with SEND.