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Delivery Models for Enhanced and Sustainable Specialist Provision
Consultation on the Proposal to Create New Delivery Models for Enhanced & Sustainable Specialist Provision
Introduction to the proposal
The Vale of Glamorgan Council is committed to ensuring that all pupils within the Vale have every opportunity to attain the best possible outcomes. In order to achieve this ambition, it is essential that we ensure schools remain sustainable, reflect the needs of our local communities, and are equipped with the best possible learning environments.
The Council’s Cabinet authorised the Director of Learning & Skills to undertake a consultation from 8 September to 17 October 2025 on a proposal to create new delivery models for enhanced specialist ALN education provision. This consultation forms part of a wider strategy to ensure that ALN specialist education provision in the Vale of Glamorgan is responsive, sustainable and evolves to meet existing and future challenges.
In recent years the growth in ALN need has increased exponentially across our overall provision in specialist education, and there is a need to consolidate support to widen access to specialist support, training and interventions across all our schools. Information gathered suggests that due to an increase of pupils with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH), a more strategic approach is needed, to improve sustainability of our services for all of our pupils.
This consultation is in two parts:
- To establish a new English Medium specialist resource base at Holton Primary School with effect from 1 January 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. A pilot provision is currently operating at the school in order to inform decision making.
- To introduce an expanded model of the Local Authorities engagement service, currently being delivered by Ysgol Y Deri. This will be piloted in the autumn term 2025 in order to inform decision making.
This would mean a change to the existing provision currently provided at Y Bont. Y Bont is a resource base currently situated at High Street Primary School. This base acts as a centre of excellence for behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and provides a stimulating, rich environment and specialist staff to cater for children with SEMH needs on a full-time basis. Places are offered on a full-time basis with dual registration with their home school, and the base operates as a ‘revolving door’ with the expectation that following a period of intervention and specialist support, pupils will be able to leave the resource base and be reintegrated back into full time mainstream education. While the provision at Y Bont has been successful and there are areas of best practice, the scope is limited given the demand, and the pressures on High Street Primary School in operating the base have been disproportionate given the outcomes required from a provision such as this, given the demand across the county
Responding to the consultation
The consultation period will run from 8 September to 17 October 2025. This consultation gives you the opportunity to ask questions and make comments that will be considered when the Council’s Cabinet decides how to proceed.
Your views are important to us, and there are a number of ways that you can respond to the consultation:
Delivery Models for Enhanced & Sustainable Specialist Provision
The Vale of Glamorgan Council
Civic Offices
Holton Road
Barry
CF63 4RU
All responses given to us in writing by 17 October 2025 will be considered by Cabinet before it decides whether or not to publish a statutory notice.
Consultation Documentation