A school for children with special educational needs in Oxford is set to get funding for an additional 23 spaces.
The Mabel Prichard Special School in Blackbird Leys caters for pupils with a range of severe learning difficulties.
It would get the extra space when the Orchard Meadow Primary School, which shares the site, relocates its foundation stage accommodation elsewhere.
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A total of £2.23million is required to complete the programme.
The report to cabinet states: "It is proposed that Orchard Meadow Primary School will relocate their foundation stage accommodation into surplus space elsewhere on site, enabling the provision of approximately 23 additional school places for children with special educational needs.”
This comes as £14.4million funding was approved by cabinet in January for a new SEND school in Didcot - the first of two new special schools planned for the area which would take the total number in Oxfordshire up to 17.
The Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission published "damning" findings of their investigation into the Oxfordshire Local Area Partnership’s Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) provision on September 15 last year.
Inspectors identified "widespread and systemic failings" which must be addressed urgently.
The Mabel Prichard School is a community special school for children and young people with "complex needs" from the ages of 2 to 19.
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