Agenda item

Jane Seymour introduced the report (Agenda Item 13), which aimed to advise the Schools’ Forum of planned places allocated currently to special schools, resourced schools.

The Education Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA) would base 2020/21 planned place funding on the place funding allocated for 2019/20 for schools which received their planned place funding through the Local Authority. There would be no opportunity for local authorities to request additional planned places for these schools, although it was possible to move places between schools.

If agreed, funding for additional places would be top sliced from the HNB. 17 new planned places had been request however, a request had also been made to remove 13 places from Newbury College and therefore there was a net increase of four planned placed.

Jonathon Chishick referred to the table on page 136 of the report and queried why it referred to ‘post 16 only’. Jane Seymour confirmed that this combined a number of places including children with EHCPs in resourced units with the post 16 group.

Resolved that the Schools’ Forum noted the report.