Agenda item

Recommendation

The Executive is asked to recommend the proposed Admission Arrangements for 2025/2026 to full Council for approval on 21 February 2024 and include:

·         the proposed co-ordinated admission arrangements (appendix 1)

·         the proposed co- ordinated in year admission arrangements (appendix 1a)

·         the proposed admission policy for community and voluntary controlled schools (appendix 2)

·         the proposed admission policy for nursery schools, schools with nursery classes and pre-reception classes (appendix 3)

·         the proposed published admission numbers (PAN’s) for community and voluntary controlled schools as shown in appendices 6 (Primary) and 7 (Secondary)

·         Proposed changes to school catchment area – Thirsk School and Sixth Form College (appendix 8)

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director – Children and Young People’s Service seeking the Executive’s views on the response to the proposed admission arrangements for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools for the school year 2025/26 and seeking a recommendation to the Council for determination.

Councillor Annabel Wilkinson introduced the report and drew attention to the consultation responses and the issues around catchment areas in particular to the proposed changes to address the anomalies in the school catchment area for Thirsk School and Sixth Form College, as detailed in the report at paragraph 3.3.

Councillor Greg White suggested similar anomalies existed in other places across the county and queried whether the same principle was to be applied to all of them.  In response Andrew Dixon – Strategic Planning Manager confirmed they could also be considered it brought to the attention of officers.   

Executive members voted in favour of the recommendations, and it was

Resolved – That the proposed Admission Arrangements for 2025/2026 be recommended to full Council for approval on 21 February 2024, to include:

i.      the proposed co-ordinated admission arrangements (appendix 1)

ii.     the proposed co- ordinated in year admission arrangements (appendix 1a)

iii.    the proposed admission policy for community and voluntary controlled schools (appendix 2)

iv.   the proposed admission policy for nursery schools, schools with nursery classes and pre-reception classes (appendix 3)

v.     the proposed published admission numbers (PAN’s) for community and voluntary controlled schools as shown in appendices 6 (Primary) and 7 (Secondary)

vi.   Proposed changes to school catchment area – Thirsk School and Sixth Form College (appendix 8)