Agenda item

(Report of the Director of the Children and Young People’s Service – To be introduced by the Executive Member for Children and Young People): To report on the outcome of the consultation exercise for the 2008/09 school year and to recommend the determination of the Council’s admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools.

Our Chair agreed to accept the report as urgent business. The report was late because of the need to complete necessary consultations. The report was too urgent to await the next meeting because determinations had to be made by 15 April 2007.

Details of the comments received in response to Fortismere School’s proposal to change the admission arrangements to the sixth form from the 2008/09 school yearwhich were set out in Appendix 10b to the interleaved report were the subject of a motion to exclude the press and public from the meeting as they contained exempt information which was likely to reveal the identity of an individual.

Councillor Canver declared a personal interest in this item by virtue of having a child who attended Fortismere School and left the room during its discussion and while the decisions were made. 

RESOLVED:

1. That approval be granted to the amended admission arrangements for all community primary and secondary schools and St Aidan’s Voluntary Controlled Primary School as set out in the interleaved report.

2. That approval be granted to the proposed admission arrangements for consultation for sixth form provision in Alexandra Park School, the Highgate/Hornsey Consortium and the new Sixth Form Centre as set out in the interleaved report.

3. That, in the light of strong opposition to the Governing Body’s proposals demonstrated through the statutory consultation process, the proposed admission arrangements for consultation put forward by Fortismere School Governors that would change their admission arrangements for the Sixth Form from 5+  A*-C to 5+ A*-B grades for AS and A2 level courses and raise GCSE requirements to access vocational courses be rejected and the admission arrangements remaining as published for the 2006 and 2007 intakes as detailed in the interleaved report be approved.

4. That approval be granted to the proposed consultation for Qualifying Schemes for the co-ordination of arrangements for admission to reception classes in all maintained primary and secondary schools in Haringey and it be noted that, at secondary level, this entailed the Council’s continued participation in the Pan-London Scheme.