The following changes will take place in September:

Ashbrow Infants: Twelve permanent places for children with communication problems cut to six transitional positions.

Ashbrow Juniors: Twelve permanent places for children with communication problems reduced to six transitional positions.

Carlinghow Juniors: Sixteen places for children with physical disabilities scrapped.

Dalton School: Nine permanent places for children with visual impairments increased to 10 permanent positions and four provisional spots.

Flatts Nursery School: Six positions for children with developmental delay scrapped. Six transitional places introduced for children with communication problems.

Headlands Juniors: Six permanent places for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) replaced by six transitional positions.

Honley High: Twenty-five permanent places cut to 15 permanent positions and five transitional spaces for children with ASD.

Lowerhouses Juniors: Twelve permanent places for children with hearing problems replaced with 10 permanent and four transitional places. Six positions for children with developmental delay scrapped.

Moldgreen Primary: Nine permanent places for children with ASD replaced by 10 transitional positions.

Rawthorpe Juniors: Eight permanent places for children with physical disabilities replaced by eight transitional positions.

Rawthorpe Infants: Eight permanent places for children with physical disabilities replaced by eight transitional positions.

Netherhall Learning Campus High School: Twelve places for children with moderate learning difficulties scrapped.

Newsome High: Twelve permanent places for children with physical disabilities replaced with 10 permanent and two transitional positions.

Park Road Juniors, Batley: Twelve places for children with hearing problems abolished.

Royds Hall High, Paddock: Thirty permanent places for children with communication problems replaced with 20 permanent positions and four transitional places.

The Community Science College at Thornhill: Fifteen permanent places and five transitional places created for children with ASD.

Thornhill Juniors: Twenty positions for children with moderate learning difficulties scrapped. Six transitional places created for children with communication problems.

CHILDREN with special education needs will receive more help at Huddersfield schools, a councillor has promised.

Earlier this month Kirklees Council decided to cut special education places in mainstream schools.

Across the district the total number of places will drop from 244 positions to 104 permanent and 84 transitional spaces.

But Kirklees Cabinet member for schools Clr Cath Harris said the council was adapting to changing demand.

“This is about having extra help through teachers, teaching assistants and speech and language therapists. It’s about giving children the best experience we can in mainstream schools,” said the Ashbrow Labour woman.

“Over time, we need to review and ask if we have the right provision in the right quantity.

“There seems to be a growth in children with autistic spectrum disorder. I’m not sure if there are more or if we’re just getting better at recognising it, but either way the provision needs to be extended because we simply don’t have enough spaces.

“If you’re a child with hearing needs then your needs can be met much better with email and text.

“Children with physical disabilities can be accommodated much better through adaptations to buildings.

“A lot of children with developmental delay – such as Down’s syndrome or cerebral palsy – at one time they would have been sent to special school. Now, schools are much more inclusive.

“We anticipate this will meet the needs of more children rather than fewer because more children will be able to access the specialist help that’s needed.”

Clr Harris added that the changes were not designed to help Kirklees cut its spending.

She said: “It’s resource-neutral. We don’t anticipate losing any staff but their roles will change – maybe delivering the service in different places.

“No child in those current positions will be expected to leave.

“We’re phasing it in and it will take five years to implement.”