Prospective Conservative MP Rebecca Pow made a fact finding visit to Selworthy Special School to discuss  potential opportunities for learners and their families opening up with the proposed move of the school  to a new location  on the former St Augustines’ School site.  Rebecca was delighted to take part in these discussions:

‘Selworthy is a special school with  an excellent reputation  but it is bursting at the gunnels and by transferring to a new site it will be able to expand, taking more children and offering much needed specialist facilities not only for the students but for their families too. It also offers the opportunity to create a centre for excellence and a hub for all related care services as well as a play centre which could profoundly improve the journey for many children with learning disabilities. There is currently nothing like this on offer anywhere across Taunton Deane from Wellington to Taunton and nothing like it much further afield across Somerset either and I am fully supporting this exciting project.’