WOKINGHAM Borough Council has reiterated its commitment to delivering a sixth form provision at Bohunt School.
At a council meeting on Thursday, October 20, Cllr Charles Margetts, Conservative councillor for Finchampstead North, asked for an update on the new standalone sixth form, extra Year 7 places and additional SEND provision.
He said: “Last week an officer within children’s services told me that delivery of the new sixth form building by September 2023 is now highly unlikely. Temporary classrooms may be needed to allow this and they made no mention of the SEND provision.
“In a subsequent discussion I had with a senior member of the Bohunt Trust, a comment was made that the pace of movement within WBC on this issue is glacial and there has been no meaningful progress since July.”
Cllr Margetts asked for the issue to be looked into by Cllr Prue Bray, executive member for children’s services, and sought a repeated commitment from her that the extra provisions would be in place by September.
Cllr Bray said the council will do “whatever we can” to deliver the additional services.
She added: “As i’m sure you can understand, there are complications to do with the fact there has been one design and we have to change the design
“We have every intention of opening provision in September, all the elements mentioned are included in that and we will do whatever we can to deliver it.
“We have a meeting with Bohunt on October 31, where we will be discussing progress and I have already initiated a system of weekly emails to Bohunt to tell them what the progress is.”
