Blind school gets $14.9m revamp

The Government will spend $14.9 million to revamp an Auckland-based school for blind children.

The Blind and Low Vision Education Network New Zealand (BLENNZ) Homai Campus in Auckland is attended by students from around the country but is "substandard and obsolete", Associate Education Minister Heather Roy said.

Most blind or low vision children attend their local school and receive more intensive services at BLENNZ.

"The redevelopment of Homai Campus will provide students with a higher standard of accommodation and greatly improved facilities - modernising the school's national resource centre, assessment centre, teaching and learning centre and early childhood services," Mrs Roy said.

The redevelopment should be completed in 2011.

- NZPA