Following the retirement of the previous headteacher, a decision was made to recruit the current executive headteacher to lead and develop a federation of two special schools, which are St. Luke’s (also responsible for the Forest House Education centre) and The Collett School. The current executive headteacher took up post in September 2017 at the request of the local authority because the previous headteacher left. St. Luke’s School is a large special school, and a high number of pupils joined in this school year. The school is also responsible for the Forest House Education Centre, which is a tierfour hospital provision for pupils who have severe mental health and emotional difficulties and who are placed there for short-term treatment. All pupils have an education, health and care (EHC) plan, usually for moderate or severe learning difficulties but, more recently, some pupils have an EHC plan for social, Inspection report: St Luke’s School, 15 to 16 May 2019 Page 8 of 11 emotional and mental health difficulties. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is higher than the national average.