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Consultation on a proposal to open an additional site

By Fiona Wilkins - October 1st, 2025 | Posted in Article

Update 23rd October: Please note the consultation is now closed. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback.

We undertook a consultation to open a satellite site and enable Nightingale Community Academy (NCA) to increase the planned places in the funding agreement from 166 to 238 and introduce a co-educational Social Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) secondary provision at the new site.

Background

NCA is a special school that currently provides for boys aged 5 to 19 with SEMH needs. All pupils have an Educational Health Care Plan. NCA works closely with the London Borough of Wandsworth to ensure its offer meets the local requirements and complements other local provisions.

Wandsworth Council has identified a need for more special school places to be provided locally for pupils whose needs could be met by the specialist team at NCA. It has identified a site in the borough formerly occupied by the Paddock School, which is now vacant, and could be adapted to provide places for the additional special school places.

The Council has asked Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (OHCAT) and NCA to open a satellite site and provide up to 72 secondary places for boys and girls in a phased build up over three years from Easter 2026.

As NCA is an academy, the expansion proposal would need to be approved by the Department for Education (DfE) and we are therefore seeking the views of members of the school community and other interested parties through this consultation to inform the DfE’s decision-making process.

The consultation was on the proposal to amend the funding agreement to open an additional site under NCA, to increase the planned places from 166 to 238 (166 main site and 72 satellite site), and to introduce a co-ed SEMH secondary provision.

The Consultation Process

The consultation period on this proposal was from Wednesday 1st October 2025 to Wednesday 22nd October 2025 and interested parties were invited to take part in the following ways:

Public meetings where you can meet the School and Trust leadership team and ask questions, were held at:

Nightingale Community Academy, on Thursday 9th October as follows:

    • 9.30am – 11am – in person at the school site
    • 3.30pm – 5pm – in person at the school site

Comments on the Proposal can be submitted in one of the following ways:

Please note the consultation closed on Wednesday 22nd October.

If you have any questions please contact the school Nightingale Community Academy, Beechcroft Road, London SW17 7DF.

Telephone: 020 8874 9096/ Email: info@nightingaleca.org