Decision details

Committee to consider a paper relating to School Place Planning.

The Commissioning Director, Children and Young People, and Programme Director, Education and Learning, introduced the item which related to School Place Planning.

During the course of the discussion, the Programme Director, Education and Learning, was requested to circulate information to the committee following the meeting regarding the number of ‘out of borough’ students at Barnet schools.

Following discussion of the report, the Chairman moved to the recommendations as laid out in the cover report, which were agreed by the committee.

The following was therefore RESOLVED:

1. The Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee noted the future requirements for school places up to 2019/20;

2. The Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee noted the progress in delivering new primary, secondary and special school places to date;

3. The Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee noted the potential future school expansions that are in development, and the free school proposals that are currently being considered by central government that will contribute to meeting future need.