Agenda item

Primary School Places - Requests for Further Statutory Appeal Hearings

Report of the Executive Director, Children, Young People and Families. 

Minutes:

7.1

The Executive Director, Children, Young People and Families, submitted  reports and commented upon two cases where parents had made requests for further statutory appeal hearings on the grounds of changes in their families’ circumstances and, arising therefrom, it was:-

 

 

7.2

RESOLVED: That the requests be not granted on the grounds that the Committee considered that there has not been a material change in the families’ circumstances (Case Nos. G1 and N1).

 

 

 

(NOTE: (a) two requests for further statutory appeal hearings were withdrawn from consideration by the Committee at the request of the pupils’ parents; and

 

 

 

(b) in accordance with Council Procedure Rule 26 of the Council’s Constitution and the provisions of Section 100B(4)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the Chair decided that the requests for further statutory appeal hearings in respect of places at primary schools (Case Nos. G1 and N1) be considered as matters of urgency in order for the requests to be considered at the earliest possible opportunity, although it had not been possible to give five clear days’ notice that the requests were to be considered.)