Agenda and decisions

Cabinet Member for Schools, Skills and Educational Achievement Decisions - Thursday, 8 October 2015 11.30 am

Venue: Room 111, County Hall, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2DN

Contact: Andrew Baird or Rianna Hanford 

Items
No. Item

1.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

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    To receive any declarations of disclosable pecuniary interests from Members in respect of any item to be considered at the meeting.

2.

PROCEDURAL ITEMS

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2a

Members' Questions

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    The deadline for Members’ questions is 12pm four working days before the meeting (Friday 2 October).

2b

Public Questions

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    The deadline for public questions is seven days before the meeting (Thursday 1 October)

2c

Petitions

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    The deadline for petitions was 14 days before the meeting and no petitions have been received.

     

3.

Proposed changes to admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools for 2017 pdf icon PDF 176 KB

    The Local Authority must consult on any changes it wishes to make to the admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools for 2017. Consultation must run for at least six weeks between 1 October 2015 and 31 January 2016 and admission arrangements for 2017 must be determined by 28 February 2016.

     

    This report seeks authorisation to proceed to consultation on the following:

    ·         Chennestone Junior School - introduction of a feeder link from Beauclerc Infant Schools

    ·         Publishing a later start date for the primary admissions round (Reception and Year 3)

    ·         Reduction in Published Admission Numbers (PAN) for Ewell Grove Infant School (due to become an all through primary school in September 2017) from 70 to 60

    ·         Reduction in PAN for West Ewell Infant School (due to become an all through primary school in September 2017) from 120 to 60

     

    In addition, this report provides a summary of other proposed changes to PAN in 2017 which are not subject to consultation.

     

     

    Additional documents:

    Decision:

    That the Cabinet Member authorises the Principal Manager Admissions and

    Transport (Strategy) to go out to statutory consultation on the proposed changes to admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools for September 2017.

     

4.

Request to Approve Value of Surplus Balances to Transfer to Salfords Primary School (Academy) pdf icon PDF 134 KB

    Salfords Primary School converted to an academy on 1 July 2015 and thus the school must be advised of the Local Authority’s calculation of its surplus balances by 31 October 2015. The Cabinet Member is asked to approve the sums to transfer.

     

    Decision:

    That the Cabinet Member approves the transfer of surplus revenue balances of £14,624 and of surplus capital balances of £4,664 to the academy trust of Salfords Primary School.