A SPECIAL school is expected to receive a glowing report from Government inspectors.

Brimble Hill is awaiting the results of its Ofsted inspection and it is anticipated that the report will call it a good school with many very good features.

The news will be a boost for the school, which was hit by vandalism in January when thugs wrecked three of its minibuses.

They caused thousands of pounds worth of damage but prompted the business community to step in with offers of help and donations.

And it is also good news for Tribal, the private firm drafted in to rescue Swindon's education service after the chaos left by an Ofsted report that branded it a failure.

When Brimble Hill was inspected in 1997 it was labelled a good school, but Ofsted the Office for Standards in Education demands that schools continue to improve rather than resting on their laurels.

The report, due out in the next week, is expected to praise the partnership formed in response to the previous report between the school and Swindon Education and Community Services.

An action plan will now be drawn up by the school looking at how to improve it still further by following the recommendations that will be made in the latest report.

The school has worked hard in the past five years to respond to the changing needs of pupils, many of whom have significant physical, sensory, communication and medical difficulties.

The school, which caters for pre-school and primary pupils with severe, multiple and profound learning difficulties, has only a few years left in its current form.

It is set to move to a new learning campus in Blunsdon which will be built with money from the council's successful £60 million private finance initiative bid, where it will combine with Uplands Special School on the same site as a primary and secondary school.