Issue - decisions

(i)         that approval be given to the refresh of the Brent Pupil Place Planning Strategy provided as Appendix 1 of the report from the Strategic Director of Children and Young People;

(ii)        that approval be given to the amendments to five of the sixteen operating principles which underpin the strategy outlined in section 3 of the report;

(iii)       that it be noted that whilst Primary School place projections indicate that demand for Reception places will slow down from 2016, recent changes in the birth rate mean that future projections are likely to be revised upwards. There will be a continued growth in demand for places in primary years other than Reception. All current planned expansions remain necessary;

(iv)       that it be noted that the demand for secondary places will increase from September 2016 with demand outstripping supply from 2018. Depending on the size of sites, the equivalent of two or three additional secondary schools will be needed by the 2022/23 academic year;

(v)        that approval be given to officers working with the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to secure sites for new secondary schools to meeting the anticipated growth in demand for additional secondary places;

(vi)       that the need to provide an additional 140 Special Educational Needs (SEND) specialist places be noted;

(vii)      that approval be given to the strategy of meeting the need for SEND places by providing 40 Additional Resources Provision (ARP) places in mainstream schools together with 100 places at new specialist Free School provision at the site of the former Avenue School in NW6;

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(viii)     that approval be given to the the revised financial profile;

(ix)       that authority for the allocation of capital funding for future projects and programmes be delegated to the Chief Finance Officer in consultation with the Lead Members for Regeneration and Growth and Children and Young People.