Issue - meetings

School Admissions Update

Meeting: 18/12/2019 - Schools Forum (Item 27)

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To receive a report containing an update on the School Admissions service.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Forum considered a report, set out at Agenda pages 55 to 57, which gave an update on the Council’s School Admissions arrangements.

 

The report stated that the School Admissions team had been transferred out of Children’s Services into Customer and Localities under the 21st Century Council change programme. It was now apparent that this change had not delivered the intended benefits to the process of school admissions. Consequently, the team was reverting back to Children’s Services.

 

At the same time, a Task and Finish Group would be established to consider the challenges facing the service and develop sustainable solutions. The Task and Finish Group would include Council Officers, head teachers, elected Members and other representatives. The Group would look at issues such as current practice challenges, SEND admissions, Fair Access and Managed Moves and data/forecasting.

 

It was suggested that a further report be submitted to the Forum, providing more detail on the new school admission arrangements.

 

RESOLVED That:

 

1)     the School Admissions update be noted;

 

2)     the proposed future actions in the report be supported;

 

3)     a further report be submitted to the January 2020 meeting of the Forum, setting out more detail on the proposed new Admissions arrangements.