To be clear, each point requests data from the start of 2016/17 academic year (so from September 1, 2016 to today).

1. For each special school in your council area, please can I request the local authority commissioned places for each academic year.
We fund all the places (@ £10k pa per place) at the two state Special Schools: Addington School (maintained) and Chiltern Way Academy (Academy converter). We don’t use all the places though, other LAs place children there, paying top up and while they don’t directly reimburse Wokingham Borough Council for place costs (£10k pa) the contributions of local authorities are balanced through the import export mechanism. DfE’s High Needs Operational Guide 2021/22 makes it clear that the term commissioning refers to the LA placing children (“The commissioning local authority (the local authority in which the student is ordinarily resident)” S75).

Addington
2016/17: 205 places
2017/18: 205 places
2018/19: 205 places
2019/20: 209 places
2020/21: 240 places
2021/22: 255 places

Chiltern Way
2016/17 to date: 69 places

The other special school in the Wokingham area, High Close School, is a Non Maintained Special School. We only commission places for individual children.
e.g. Number of children in High Close School as of January School Census day in:
2017: 6
2018: 3
2019: 5
2020: 8
2021: 14

2. For each of these schools, please can I request the capacity of each of these schools for each academic year, so how many children can physically fit in each school.
We do not hold this information. There is no official measure of special school capacity. The number of children will depend on the needs of children (fairly obviously a school with a very high student to staff ratio is likely to be able to accommodate fewer children than one with a low student to staff ratio).

3. For each of these schools, the actual number of children on the roll for each academic year.
Addington
January 2017: 205
January 2018: 209
January 2019: 214
January 2020: 222
January 2021: 242
January 2022: Not yet available

Chiltern Way
January 2017: 47
January 2018: 51
January 2019: 57
January 2020: 56
January 2021: 36
January 2022: Not yet available

4. How many special schools have had work done to physically extend the school and the total cost of these works per school since 2016/17 AY.
Since FY16/17 - Addington Expansion, budgeted capital spend £4.4m

5. For each of these schools, the prediction for place demand for the next three AY years.
We do not hold this information.

6. The overall expected change in place demand for the next three years across the LA.
We do not hold this information.

7. The number of places commissioned at schools out of borough per AY. Please state which LA area these were in.
2017: 132
2018: 122
2019: 124
2020: 136
2021: 146

The school LA areas are below:
212 WANDSWORTH LONDON (INNER)
315 MERTON LONDON (OUTER)
668 PEMBROKESHIRE WALES
825 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE SOUTH EAST
835 DORSET (PRE LGR 2019) SOUTH WEST
836 POOLE (PRE LGR 2019) SOUTH WEST
850 HAMPSHIRE SOUTH EAST
865 WILTSHIRE SOUTH WEST
866 SWINDON SOUTH WEST
867 BRACKNELL FOREST SOUTH EAST
868 WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD SOUTH EAST
869 WEST BERKSHIRE SOUTH EAST
870 READING SOUTH EAST
871 SLOUGH SOUTH EAST
886 KENT SOUTH EAST
887 MEDWAY SOUTH EAST
888 LANCASHIRE NORTH WEST
891 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE EAST MIDLANDS
893 SHROPSHIRE WEST MIDLANDS
912 DORSET (PRE LGR) SOUTH WEST
916 GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOUTH WEST
917 HAMPSHIRE (PRE LGR) SOUTH EAST
930 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (PRE LGR) EAST MIDLANDS
931 OXFORDSHIRE SOUTH EAST
933 SOMERSET SOUTH WEST
936 SURREY SOUTH EAST
938 WEST SUSSEX SOUTH EAST