FAQs
What is Specialist Resourced Provision?
Specialist Resourced Provision (SRP) allows children to attend mainstream school whilst having access to specialist teaching staff and a tailored environment.
An SRP gives children and young people who are struggling in mainstream schools additional support to enable them to cope better with school life. Children that attend an SRP will have an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP). A place in such provision is agreed by Warwickshire County Council, High Needs Provision Panel.
How do they work?
A Specialist Resourced Provision is located within a school site and provides a nurturing and supportive environment for children to thrive. It takes the form of a discrete physical based within a mainstream school with additional SRP- deployed staff to offer activities in the base and support pupils to access mainstream lessons in curriculum areas or in the bases itself. This makes learning accessible and provides a bespoke environment to support students’ learning.
The time children and young people spend in regular classes depends on their individual needs. Children and young people would also have access to different resources.
As part of Warwickshire’s current model for SRPs in secondary schools, two types of SRPs are offered – Communication and Interaction (C&I) and Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH).
Ashlawn School’s SRP would specialise in Communication and Interaction (C&I).
What impact will this provision have on the young people currently at the school?
The intention is that this provision will strengthen the already high-quality educational experience for students and our inclusive approach here at Ashlawn School.
Staff with specialist expertise and knowledge will lead the provision but will have an important role to play in inclusive practices across the school.
How will the SRP be accommodated in the school?
This provision would be based in an area of the school specially designed to support the needs of students. This includes a separate entrance, teaching, social and sensory spaces.
This is in an existing area of the school that isn’t currently used, which is on Level One above the current food technology classrooms.
How many children will be in the SRP, and will this make it harder to get into Ashlawn?
Nine student places would be available per year group cohort, starting with a Year 7 intake in year one in September 2026, growing year-on-year until achieving full capacity in each year group up to Year 11 in 2031. This is a total of 45 children.
These children will all have Education Healthcare Plans (EHCPs), and as such already have priority allocation of places. This will, therefore, not make it any harder for children to currently access Ashlawn – it will only strengthen our offer for those nine children in each year.
How will the provision be funded?
The Local Authority will fund the provision through the EHCPs.
