Decision details

School Admission amended arrangements 2021/22 and 2022/23

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Decisions:

The Executive Director of Children’s Services – Education, Early Help and Social Care, Brighter Futures for Children, submitted a report asking the Committee to determine the amended admission arrangements for Community Primary Schools in the Borough for the school years 2021/22 and 2022/23.  A copy of the admissions arrangements for Community Primary Schools in Reading for the school years 2021/22 and 2022/23 were appended to the report.

The report explained that in the previous year the Government had consulted on changes to the School Admissions Code.  The new Code and associated regulation had been laid before parliament and were subject to parliamentary procedure and would come into force on 1 September 2021. 

Point 1.7 of the new Code required children who appeared, to the admission authority, to have been in state care outside of England and had ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted, to be given equal first priority in admission arrangements, alongside looked after children and children who had been previously looked after by English authorities.  This advice referred to these children as internationally adopted previously looked after children, IAPLAC.  These arrangements complied with the new School Admissions Code 2021.

Resolved –    That the scheme attached to the report at Annex A as the admission arrangements for 2021/22 and the scheme attached to the report at Annex B as the admission arrangements for 2022/23 for community schools in Reading be approved as updated arrangements.

Report author: Kate Reynolds

Publication date: 07/10/2021

Date of decision: 01/07/2021

Decided at meeting: 01/07/2021 - Adult Social Care, Children's Services and Education Committee

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