Agenda item

The Cabinet considered the Admissions Policy for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools 2021/22, the Co-ordinated Admissions scheme for Primary/Middle and Secondary Schools 2021/22, Published Admission Numbers for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools and the Fair Access Policy for Worcestershire Schools. The details were given in the Agenda.

The Cabinet Member for Education and Skills introduced the report and explained that the Office of the Schools Adjudicator clarified that PAN forms part of the admission arrangements as a whole and therefore needs to be approved by the Cabinet Member annually. No responses were received in relation to the Admissions Policy for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools 2020/21.

RESOLVED that Cabinet:

(a)     approved the Admissions Policy for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools 2021/22 as set out in Appendices 1a and 1b to the report;

(b)    approved the scheme for Co-ordinated Admissions for Primary/Middle and Secondary Schools for 2021/22 as set out in Appendices 2a and 2b to the report;

(c)     approved the Published Admission Numbers for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools, including the proposed reductions, as set out in Appendix 3 to the report;

(d)        approved the Fair Access Protocol for Worcestershire Schools as set out in Appendix 4 to the report; and

(e)         confirmed the authorisation to the Cabinet Member with Responsibility for Education and Skills to approve the Council’s annual Admission Arrangements, in consultation with the Director of Children’s Services, including:

(i)    the annual Schools Admissions Policy for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools, Schemes for Co-ordinated Admissions, and Fair Access Protocol where no significant changes are proposed to them; and

  (ii)   approving school PANs (other than for prescribed alterations to maintained schools through increases in physical capacity, and without prejudice to their separate delegation).