Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Bithell introduced the School Admission Arrangements 2018 report which provided details of the statutory consultation exercise on the admissions arrangements for September 2018.

                        During the consultation process a comment had been received from a primary headteacher on admission from Nursery to Reception in the light of several Nursery pupils not being able to gain places in the Reception class at the same school the previous year.  The suggestion was that Nursery education should be made statutory or that the provision should be taken away entirely.  That view was also reflected amongst some other primary headteachers.  However, local authorities were constrained by the Welsh Government School Admission Code which clearly stated that attendance at Nursery was not statutory and could have no bearing on the allocation of places at Reception.

                        The admissions timetable had been drawn up in consultation with neighbouring authorities and took into account factors such as allowing parents sufficient time to visit schools and express their preferences.  There we no changes proposed to the admissions criteria however the opportunity had been taken to amend the wording to urge parents to express more than one preference for a school.

RESOLVED:

That the proposed admission arrangements for 2018/19 be approved.