Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of the Children and Young People’s Service)  To report on demand for pupil places in Haringey’s schools and to update on action to respond to this demand.

The Committee considered a report setting out what action was being taken to meet demand for pupil places in Haringey’s Primary, Secondary and Special Schools.

The report set out the recommendations that would be considered by Cabinet, which included several statutory actions and a detailed work programme for the year ahead. The data collected suggested that by 2011 there would be a shortfall in the number of reception places available in the west of the Borough and therefore it was proposed that Rhodes Avenue Primary School should be expanded to include an additional form of entry.

In response to a query as to how the data reflected the expansion of local areas in terms of planning and the areas already designated for housing under the Unitary Development Plan (UDP), the Committee was advised that, the data was collected via the Planning Department and therefore this was incorporated.

The Committee was advised that the education element of the Section 106 Agreement attached to the Hale Wharf development would not become available until the development had been completed.

RESOLVED:

That the recommendations to the Cabinet, set out within the report, be endorsed.