Admissions Report 20062007

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Admissions Report 2006/2007
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Admissions Cycle

• Nursery intake
• Reception intake
• Infant to Junior transfer
• Secondary intake
• Mid year applications

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Nursery 2006
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Reception 2006
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Junior Transfer 2006
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Secondary 2006
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September 2007

• Reception
• 99.2 any pref (951st)
• Secondary
• 99.6 offered a preference
• 27 children offered nearest alternative
• 80.5 offered 1st pref
• 92 offered 1st or 2nd pref

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Mid Year Applications

• Primary 713 (05/06)
• 468 Sept 06 - January 07
• Secondary 274 (05/06)
• 198 Sept 06 - January 07

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Secondary Mid Year Applications Sept 06 - Jan 07
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New Admissions Code

• Effective from 28 Feb 2007

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Equity and Fair Access

• LAs required to develop Choice Advice to
  parents.
• Governing Bodies of maintained schools under a
  duty to promote community cohesion.
• Academies required to comply with the code.
• LAs must adopt a Fair Access Protocol by Sept
  2007.
• All schools are required to comply with the
  Protocol and admit children even if this will
  result in the Published Admission Number being
  breached.

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Equity and Fair Access

• A child must be included on the School Roll from
  the beginning of the first day on which the
  school has been agreed
• Interviews now prohibited,
• Admission arrangements must not disadvantage,
  directly or indirectly a child from any
  particular grouping.
• LA or Admissions Authorities MUST act on any
  information that suggests any group is being
  unfairly treated
• Additional support with costs of transport for
  low income families

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Oversubscription Criteria

• Random Allocation (Lottery) sited as good
  practice
• Should take account of travelling times and
  availability of public transport.
• Adoption of banding arrangements no longer
  requires Statutory Proposal.

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Admission Forum

• Greater clarity around role of Forum
• Will agree and monitor Fair Access Protocol
• Should report annually to Schools Commissioner
• Promote agreement on admission issues
• Monitor in year admission
• Monitor actual admissions against admission
  numbers

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Mid Year Transfers

• Must not disadvantage children applying mid year
• LAs must have an agreed Fair Access Protocol in
  place for September 2007.
• LA can direct admission to school where Governors
  are the Admission Authority (Inc Academies)
  must consult first. Any dispute referred to
  Adjudicator.
• LAs must ensure that no school is asked to take
  an unreasonable amount of Hard to Place Children
  even where they have vacancies

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Fair Access Protocol
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Admissions Code

• In Year Fair Access Protocols exist to ensure
  that access to education is secured quickly for
  children who have no school place, and to ensure
  that all schools in an area admit their fair
  share of children with challenging behaviour

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Key Requirements of Protocol

• All schools must participate in protocol
• Ensure children offered a place in a suitable
  school as quickly as possible
• This includes admitting children above the
  published admission number to schools that are
  full
• No school should be asked to take an excessive or
  unreasonable number of excluded children

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Key Principles

• Quickly identify complex (CME) Applications
• Encourage children to stay in present schools
  where possible
• Early intervention where parent seeking to change
  their childs school
• Where CME child requires mainstream place
  consider
• Parental preference (Choice Advisor)
• Catchment school
• number of CME offers previously made by schools

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Children are deemed to be at risk of missing
education where they are failing to access or
engage in identified suitable provision. For
example

• Poor or non attendance
• temporary placement pending assessment
• unofficial exclusion
• series of fixed term exclusions
• application for change of school pending
• children whose parents have requested that they
  be removed from a school roll before securing an
  alternative school place

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Secondary Offers MadeSept 06 - Jan 07