Members of Wiltshire Council’s cabinet this week confirmed that specialist learning centres at Malmesbury Primary School and Longleaze Primary in Wootton Bassett will stay open until at at least 2012.

At that stage a review of all special educational needs provision in north east Wiltshire and parts of Swindon will be carried out.

But centres in Durrington, Tidworth, Salisbury and Mere are to close.

Coun Lionel Grundy, cabinet member for children’s services, said: “Every child has a programme of support tailored to their needs and the more we can address that through mainstream education the better.

“Some children do have to be put in a special learning centre but increasingly throughout the country, councils are turning to this idea to provide a better education for all.”