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PUPILS from a Camden school for deaf children that is facing closure would be welcome at a Muswell Hill special school, says Haringey Council.
Camden Council wants to replace Frank Barnes School in Swiss Cottage with a city academy and favours merging its pupils with Blanche Nevile School, a specialist school in Burlington Road for deaf young people aged three to 18.
Councillor Liz Santry, Haringey Council cabinet member for children and young people, said: "We've had a constructive and useful meeting with Camden Council about whether pupils from Frank Barnes could be taken at Blanche Nevile.
"Our aim is to enhance the facilities at Blanche Nevile so that it could offer help and support to pupils, who are deaf or partially hearing from all over north London thereby developing a regional provision. Pupils from Frank Barnes would be more than welcome.
"We will work in partnership with Camden Council and the Frank Barnes School to make sure this issue is resolved as positively as possible for all concerned."
But in Camden the plans to close Frank Barnes has sparked protests.
Actress-turned-fashion-designer Sadie Frost and two of her children joined parents, governors, students and friends of Frank Barnes for a march through Camden last Wednesday.
Ms Frost, ex-wife of Hollywood actor Jude Law, whose nephew goes to Frank Barnes, said: "It's a great school and the kids need the positive role models that come with it."
They marched to Camden Town Hall where the council's executive made it clear its preferred option would be to merge Frank Barnes with Blanche Nevile School.
But protestor Polly Burton, who has a four-year-old daughter at Frank Barnes, said: "We don't want our kids to be absorbed as it may marginalise them."
A decision is expected early next year.
PUPILS from a Camden school for deaf children that is facing closure would be welcome at a Muswell Hill special school, says Haringey Council.
Camden Council wants to replace Frank Barnes School in Swiss Cottage with a city academy and favours merging its pupils with Blanche Nevile School, a specialist school in Burlington Road for deaf young people aged three to 18.
Councillor Liz Santry, Haringey Council cabinet member for children and young people, said: "We've had a constructive and useful meeting with Camden Council about whether pupils from Frank Barnes could be taken at Blanche Nevile.
"Our aim is to enhance the facilities at Blanche Nevile so that it could offer help and support to pupils, who are deaf or partially hearing from all over north London thereby developing a regional provision. Pupils from Frank Barnes would be more than welcome.
"We will work in partnership with Camden Council and the Frank Barnes School to make sure this issue is resolved as positively as possible for all concerned."
But in Camden the plans to close Frank Barnes has sparked protests.
Actress-turned-fashion-designer Sadie Frost and two of her children joined parents, governors, students and friends of Frank Barnes for a march through Camden last Wednesday.
Ms Frost, ex-wife of Hollywood actor Jude Law, whose nephew goes to Frank Barnes, said: "It's a great school and the kids need the positive role models that come with it."
They marched to Camden Town Hall where the council's executive made it clear its preferred option would be to merge Frank Barnes with Blanche Nevile School.
But protestor Polly Burton, who has a four-year-old daughter at Frank Barnes, said: "We don't want our kids to be absorbed as it may marginalise them."
A decision is expected early next year.