Issue - meetings

To consider the joint report of the Director of Children’s Services, the Director of City Development and the Deputy Chief Executive detailing proposals to meet the local authority’s duty to ensure sufficiency of school places. Specifically, the report describes the outcome of statutory notices regarding proposals to expand secondary provision at Roundhay Through-School, which would increase its capacity from 1250 pupils to 1500 pupils in years 7 – 11, with an increase in the cohort sizes from 250 to 300, with effect from September 2017.

Further to Minute No. 10, 24^th June 2015, the Director of Children’s Services, the Director of City Development and the Deputy Chief Executive submitted a joint report detailing the outcomes from the publication of statutory notices regarding proposals to expand secondary provision at Roundhay Through-School and which sought approval to implement such expansion.

Responding to an enquiry, Members were advised that the school’s Board of Governors had considered and agreed to the proposals.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That changes to Roundhay Through-School by increasing its capacity

from 1250 pupils to 1500 pupils in years 7 – 11, with an increase in the cohort sizes from 250 to 300, with effect from September 2017, be approved;

(b)  That the increase to the year 7 admissions number in 2017

and 2018 to 300, then its reduction to 240 in 2019, be approved, given that the primary children are already on the roll of the school and the admission number is the number of additional children from other primary schools that would be admitted;

(c)  That it be noted that the responsible officer for the implementation of such matters is the Head of Learning Systems.