Determination of the Council's Admissions Arrangements and co-ordinated scheme for the academic year 2015/16.

1.      That the Council’s co-ordinated admissions scheme, as attached at Appendices 1 and 2 to the report be approved.

2.      That the findings of the Annual Report of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator which has upheld over 20 objections to nursery criteria and how this can be unfair and disadvantageous to children as well as the two responses to the consultation which were not supportive regarding the inclusion of this criterion be noted.

3.      That the proposed inclusion of the nursery criteria for Hawthorn Park and Tithe Farm Lower School will not be implemented in line with the responses and report of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator.

4.      That the conversion of lower catchment areas in Houghton Regis to Primary catchment areas, as set out in section 31 of the report, be noted.

5.      That the implementation of a catchment area for Greenleas Kestrel Way but not the inclusion of nursery criteria for this site as per the revised admissions policy for the school, as set out in sections 34 to 37 of the report be approved.

6.      That the implementation of a catchment area for the second site of St Andrews Lower School, Biggleswade, including the admissions policy, be approved.

7.      That the published admission number at Watling Lower School remain at 45 for admissions in the academic year of 2015/16.