Ash Grove School has a wide range of provision to cater for pupil needs and circumstance and placement purpose. However, our core function is the service for the local authority to adhere to their Section 19 responsibility, whereby a pupil has been permanently excluded (PEX) from their mainstream secondary school.
When a pupil is permanently excluded (PEX) from a Bury secondary school, on the sixth day of that exclusion, the pupil will become the responsibility of Ash Grove School in terms of their education and safeguarding. Appropriate and available provision will be made by Ash Grove School in one of our centres, which will be determined by a number of factors - capacity, age, attainment levels, curriculum, presentation and known associates.
A member of the school's leadership team will be in touch to arrange induction into the provision, which will start with a parent/carer meeting. We pride ourselves on collating as much information as we can at induction to inform practice and appropriate curriculum.
Parents and carers do have the right of appeal for any permanent exclusion (PEX), which involves Governors at their school. Each school has their own process and guidance around this should be sought from the excluding school. When a PEX is upheld, pupils will transfer onto Ash Grove School roll.
SEN consultation
Special Educational Needs (SEN) consultations are received when the local authority SEN team are seeking to place a child with an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) in an appropriate setting that can meet the child's needs. This is usually when mainstream schools can no longer meet the needs of that young person.
SEN consultations will be considered for pupils that predominantly have SEMH as their primary need. All SEN consultations will be responded to within 15 days from receipt, as per the SEND Code of Practice.
Please refer to our SEND page for further information.