Overview
Lincolnshire County Council consulted on a change to the published admissions number at Corby Glen Primary School, which will alter the minimum number of places from 20 to 15. This will allow the school greater flexibility in complying with regulations that state that infant classes can contain no more than 30 students. There are no other changes proposed to the policy.
Executive summary
This was a survey on a change to the published admissions number at Corby Glen Primary School, which would alter the minimum number of places from 20 to 15. It was open for six weeks.
It was very widely promoted to news outlets, parents, social media and the public.
There were 42 responses to the survey made up of:
- 25 (60%) were a parent of a child aged between 2 and 18 years
- 5 (12%) were a professional from a school
- 12 (28%) selected other
Of these:
- 20 (48%) agree or strongly agree with the proposed reduction
- 5 (12%) were not sure
- 17 (40%) disagree
Introduction
Lincolnshire County Council, as the admissions authority for maintained schools, is responsible for ensuring that an admissions policy is in place detailing how applications are processed for these schools. This admissions policy must include each school’s published admissions number (PAN), which is the minimum number of places available in the intake year. Schools may propose changes to PAN which triggers the consultation process.
This was an annual statutory six-week consultation taking place between 20 October and 1 December.
- 28 February 2024 - arrangements must be formally determined
- 15 March 2024 - arrangements must be published
- 15 May 2024 - deadline for objections to the schools adjudicator
Stakeholders
- there is a statutory list of stakeholders
- the school wishing to decrease the PAN wrote out to all parents via parentmail and engaged directly with parents
Methodology
A survey was open to the public on the homepage of Let’s talk Lincolnshire for six weeks from 20 October to 1 December 2023.
Promotion was carried out via various methods:
- five social media posts were posted over the six-week project
- a newsletter was sent to all registered participants on Let’s talk Lincolnshire
- a news release was sent out to local media outlets
- the school wishing to decrease the PAN wrote out to all parents via parentmail and engaged directly with parents
- an article was placed in the October edition of the Town and Parish Council newsletter.