A SOUTHAMPTON head teacher says the city needs another special needs school.

Zoe Evans - CEO of Rosewood and Great Oaks Schools - says SEND classrooms are “bursting at the seams.”

The head teacher has recently brought her school, which teaches 2-19 year olds with complex and profound needs, through its fourth ‘outstanding’ Ofsted report in a row.

But now she says the city needs more spaces while opposition leaders say the council are moving “too slowly.”

Education spokesperson for Southampton Conservatives Cllr James Baillie said city education chiefs “could have been planned earlier.”

He said: “The predictions for the numbers of pupils rising have been available for a while and they need to get moving as quickly as possible.

“More than any other pupil children with special needs to know what’s going to happen to them and where they are going to have their education.”