A new school set to open in Breightmet will welcome pupils later this year. The independent school on Milthorpe Road will provide specialist education for young people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum condition. It will also include sixth-form provision.
Birchwood Children’s Services , which runs a school in Warrington, will provide education for children and young people between the ages of five and eighteen. The official opening date of the school is yet to be confirmed for a proposed number of 80 full-time pupils. The school will be run by headteacher and Director of Birchwood Children’s Services Deborah Chappell.
READ MORE: Scheme lodged to transform vacant Breightmet Autism Centre The Breightmet Centre for Autism ordered to close Birchwood’s new location will offer education for children who are on the “Autistic Spectrum, Learning difficulties, physical disabilities and complex needs with associated challenging behaviour and young people with social emotional behaviour difficulties (SEBD)”. An application for the school was lodged in June at the site previously belonging to Breightmet Autism Centre, which has been vacant since it was ordered to close by the Care Quality Commission last year after it was rated inadequate. Ofsted carried out a pre-registration inspection at the school and reported 'it is likely to meet all the independent school standards when it opens'.
The building has since undergone extensive renovation and will be used solely by the proposed s.