What is the local authority trying to achieve?

47  Lancashire County Council's (Lancashire) first wave concentrates on Burnley and Pendle where it wants BSF to:

■  aid the regeneration of the area through improved educational attainment;

■  develop a universal educational vision for its schools across the area, with coordinated specialisms;

■  end single sex provision;

■  reduce surplus capacity to meet the needs of a declining population, by merging eleven schools into eight; and

■  increase the provision of Special Educational Needs and Behaviour, Emotional and Social Difficulty facilities at mainstream schools.