This report invites the Cabinet to determine the Authority’s admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled primary and secondary schools and the coordinated schemes for 2014-2015. This is a statutory requirement

The Cabinet considered the report of the Acting Director of Children’s Services inviting the Cabinet to determine the Authority’s admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools and the co-ordinated schemes for 2014-2015, this was a statutory requirement.  The report also advised of an option arising from a review of the selective testing arrangements in Wirral and invited Cabinet to agree in principle to this change taking place. 

RESOLVED: That

(1)  the proposed admission arrangements for community and voluntary controlled schools and the Wirral co-ordinated schemes for 2014-2015 be approved; and

(2)  the principle of joining a test provider’s Consortium of schools for non-Catholic grammar selective testing be approved.