Plans for two new schools for Norfolk caught up in fresh uncertainty |
The government has told Norfolk County Council it is prepared to fund new special schools in Great Yarmouth and Downham Market, which had been in limbo because of a spending review.
While 18 special schools will not get funding, the Norfolk schools - Unity School in Yarmouth and The Ryston School in Downham Market - are still in the national programme.
Downham Market (Image: Mike Page)
But County Hall has been asked if it would accept a smaller sum of cash to provide special educational needs provision at other schools - which could be provided more quickly than constructing entirely new schools.........