Bowman Academy is a special school which will provide 64 places for children in the age range 4 -16 with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs named on their Education Health and Care Plan.
The school is due to open to pupils in the autumn of 2024.
For a child to be admitted, the school must be named by a local authority in the child’s education health and care plan. Parents wishing their children to benefit from our provision should ask their local authority to name our school in their child EHCP.
A local authority can also refer a child to the school to be assessed for an EHCP plan or, following a change in the child’s circumstances, for his or her needs to be assessed or reassessed. Any assessment should be completed within the 20 weeks set out in the SEND Code of practice.
Children being assessed for an EHCP will be dual registered and return, full time, to their mainstream school if the LA decides not to issue an EHCP.