Category: Consultation

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the proposed Admission Arrangements (2019/2020) for St Gilda's Junior School (external link)

The consultation period will run from 20 December 2017 until 31 January 2018. Parents/carers are particularly welcome to comment on the proposed change to the admission arrangements for 2019/20.

Please send your comments to The Chair of Governors by 31st January 2018, by email to admin@st-gildas.haringey.sch.uk or write to The Chair of Governors: c/o St Gildas’ Catholic Junior School, Oakington Way, London, N8 9EP.

The Governing Body will take account of responses to this consultation before determining its arrangements.

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the proposed Admission Arrangements (2019/2020) for St Peter-in-Chains RC Infant School (external link)

The consultation period will run from 20 December 2017 until 31 January 2018. Parents/carers are particularly welcome to comment on the proposed change to the admission arrangements for 2019/20.

Please send your comments to The Chair of Governors by 31 January 2018, by email to:

admin@st-peter-in-chains-rc.haringey.sch.uk or write to The Chair of Governors, St. Peter-in-Chains RC Infant School, Elm Grove London N8 9AJ.

The Governing Body will take account of responses to this consultation before determining its arrangements.

primary sif 2019-2020

Admissions Policy 2019-2020 draft

Admissions 2019-20 consultation letter general_

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please see the proposed Admission Arrangements (2019/2020) for Yesodey Hatorah Girls Secondary School (external link) 

 

The consultation period will run from 20 December 2017 until 31 January 2018. If you have any comments to make on the above proposal either email the school at chairyh@yesodeyhatorah.org

 

or write to the address below:  

 

Chair of Governors

Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls School

Egerton Road

London

N16 6UA

 

Dear Headteacher and Chair of Governors

Between 27 October and 8 December 2017 Haringey is consulting on the proposed admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled (VC) primary and secondary schools for the academic year 2019/20.　

Haringey is consulting on a proposal to introduce an additional oversubscription criterion for children of staff to follow after the sibling criterion. This means that children of staff who meet the following requirements will have priority over any children who apply for a place under the distance criterion:

"Children whose parent is a member of staff who has been employed at the school for two or more years at the time of application or has been recruited to fill a vacancy for which there is a demonstrable skill shortage."

This change seeks to assist schools in recruiting and retaining staff by prioritising the admission of child(ren) of staff to the school. Some local academies and a voluntary aided school as well as schools in neighbouring boroughs currently give priority to children of staff and extending this to Haringey community and VC schools may help schools to compete for the best staff in the current competitive recruitment climate. It will also provide schools with the ability to retain and recruit staff to areas where there is a demonstrable skills shortage such as maths and science.

You can find out more about the consultation on all of our proposed admission arrangements by visiting our consultation page (external link).

In February 2018 the Council’s Cabinet will make a final decision on the 2019/20 admission arrangements including whether the additional oversubscription criterion for children of staff should be introduced.

Please do help us to ensure that as many parents and carers as possible are made aware of the consultation by signposting it in your school newsletter. If any of your parent/carers would like to comment on the proposed arrangements, they can do so by completing the online questionnaire on our consultation webpage.

Academies, Free Schools and Voluntary Aided Schools

Admission arrangements for academies, free schools and voluntary aided schools are determined by those schools and are not affected by Haringey’s proposed arrangements.

If your governors of your school would like to follow the admission arrangements proposed by the local authority for community and voluntary controlled schools (VC) then please do let me know as soon as possible so I can include your decision in our determination.

In cases where the admission authority delegates its power to determine, the responsibility to comply with the Code remains with the admission authority. You must still therefore ensure that you minute this decision at your governing body meeting and publish your admission arrangements on your website.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions on this consultation or you would like any further information.

Yours faithfully

Carlo Kodsi, Team Leader School Admissions, (E: Carlo.Kodsi@haringey.gov.uk/ T: 020 8489 1823)  

 

FAO all Headteachers and Governors – admission arrangements for entry in September 2019

 

Dear Headteacher and Chair of Governors,
 
RE: Admission arrangements for entry in September 2019

 

This information is for Academies, free schools, voluntary-aided and foundation schools only. (It is copied to community and voluntary controlled schools for information only, as the LA, as your admitting authority, undertakes this task for you.)

 

Consultation on admission arrangements for entry in September 2019

 

I am writing to all governing bodies of own admitting authority schools (academies, free schools, voluntary-aided and foundation schools) to ask if your governing body is intending to consult on your admission arrangements for entry in September 2019. 

 

You are only required to consult for entry in September 2019 if you propose to change the arrangements your governing body determined for entry in September 2018. The School Admissions Code (2014) stipulates that consultation must also take place if a 7-year period has elapsed without consultation on arrangements.

 

If you are going to consult, your proposed arrangements must be in the public domain for a minimum of 6 weeks between 1 October 2017 and 31 January 2018.  If your governing body is going to consult, please let me know if you would like me to circulate your proposed admission arrangements when we go out to consultation for Haringey community and voluntary controlled (VC) schools this year.  

 

We consult on our admission arrangements annually irrespective of whether or not there is a proposed change to the arrangements. This is to ensure transparency and openness on the contents of our arrangements and to allow parents, carers and other stakeholders who might not previously been interested in admission arrangements (perhaps because they didn’t have a child of school age) to make a representation which can then be considered as part of the determination of the arrangements.

 

If you are intending to consult, then please reference the consultation on your website and ensure you include information on how to respond to the consultation so we can signpost to this when we consult all relevant stakeholders. Please contact me direct for further information.

 

Determining your admission arrangements for entry in September 2019 (even if you have not consulted this year)

 

Your governing body must meet again to determine your arrangements by 28 February 2018.

 

If you have not consulted because the arrangements have not changed you must still minute that the governing body have determined the admission arrangements for entry in September 2019 and in all cases, I must receive a copy of your arrangements to be posted on our website on 15 March 2018.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions about the consultation process.

 

Carlo Kodsi, Carlo.Kodsi@haringey.gov.uk

0208 489 1823

 

The consultation on the term dates for the academic years 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 (external link)  closed on Tuesday 23 May 2017. Thank you to all those who responded.

In proposing these dates, we liaised with neighboring local authorities about proposals for school term dates in their areas. In doing this we seek to ensure school holidays coincide across borough boundaries to avoid the potential disruption and attendance issues that may arise for families if local schools use differing school calendars.

The results of the consultation were submitted to the Schools Employee Consultative Group (SCG) (external link) on Monday 10 July 2017 and the final dates have been agreed with regard to all the representation made through the consultation. The term dates will be published on our term dates page (external link) by the end of this week.

I would be grateful if you can please share this information with anyone interested.

Carlo Kodsi, Team Leader School Admissions