A London deaf school renowned across the UK is facing an uncertain future, parents fear, despite winning their battle against staffing cuts amid financial strains.
Laycock Primary School in Islington has an unusually large deaf provision serving 13 London boroughs, attracting clinical and council referrals and praise from the British Deaf Association and National Deaf Children’s Society.
A total of 64 children attend, of which 38 have additional needs such as ADHD and autism. Award-winning staff have catered to students from nursery to year 6 for 40 years.
Proposals of specialist staff redundancies were protested by parents in December and as a result, withdrawn by the school’s governors panel this week.
But parents fear it’s a sticking plaster response and staffing cuts could be revisited in future as the school grapples with a financial deficit.
