Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Eastwood introduced the report and explained that in accordance with the School Admissions Code, the Council was required to undertake a statutory consultation exercise on its admission arrangements for the following year.

Consultation must be complete by 1^st March and the admission arrangements must be determined by 15 April each year.  Statutory consultees included all schools in the area, the diocesan authorities and neighbouring authorities.

Consultation must cover the full admission arrangements including the

admissions policy, oversubscription criteria, the timetable for admissions and admission numbers (i.e. the maximum number of pupils to be admitted by the admissions authority in to each year group). That information was appended to the report.

Councillor Roberts commented on the declining number of appeals.  The current admission arrangements had been in place since 2003 and the majority of parental preferences continued to be met. The number of admission appeals in recent years was detailed in the table in the report.

RESOLVED:

That the proposed admission arrangements for 2025/26 be approved.