Purpose

The Head teacher
and governors at Whittlefield Community Primary School have
approached the local authority in relation to the future of the
nursery provision at the school. The school has asked the local
authority to start the formal statutory process to consult on the
proposal to cease the maintained nursery provision by permanently
reducing the age range from 3–11-year-olds (Nursery 2 to Year
6) to 4–11-year-olds (Reception to Year 6), with effect from
31 December 2024.
 
Under The School
Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools)
(England) Regulations 2013 and the Department for Education's
statutory guidance, 'Making 'Prescribed Alterations' to Maintained
Schools' published in January 2023, the local authority must be the
proposer for this type of significant change and carry out a
statutory process, which includes publication, representation,
decision, rights of appeal and implementation. In line with this,
the authority is now required to decide whether to publish a
Statutory Notice on the proposal to consult on the future of the
maintained nursery provision at Whittlefield Community Primary
School, Burnley.

Content

The Cabinet approved the recommendation(s) as
set out in the report.