School placement planning estimates and actual data
Dear Buckinghamshire Council,
Local authorities have a duty under section 14 of the Education Act 1996 to secure that sufficient schools are available for their area to provide primary and secondary education. In order to do this Buckinghamshire must know the actual and estimated number of children in each geographical area. If this is not true, please can you advise how you plan the school places?
I would be grateful to know
• Estimated number of year 6 children living in the areas covered by SL1, SL2 and, SL6 in the years 2019/20 to 2025/26 by geographical area (identified by 4 chars of the post code or more detailed), which form the basis of your school placement planning
• Estimated number of primary and secondary places needed for 2019/20 to 2025/26 for the following schools
o St Peter’s Burnham
o Lent Rise
o St Nicholas Taplow
o Dorney
o Farnham Common Infant and Junior schools
o Farnham Royal
o Stoke Poges
o Dropmore
o Khalsa
o Burnham Grammar
o Bourne End Academy
• Actual number of pupils from each geographical area (as defined above) and which schools they attend
• Actual number of pupils attending the named schools by geographical area.
I know that each school reports the post code for all its pupils, and that this can be reserve engineered into the actual catchment areas of the school.
Yours faithfully
Carol Linton
Dear Carol Linton
Thank you for your information request received on 29 April 2020.
We can confirm receipt of your request for information and will handle it
under the most appropriate legislation. Your case reference number is FOI
11288
You can expect to receive a response by 29 May 2020.
Please note that due to the extraordinary circumstances as a result of
COVID-19, requests may take longer to process as we prioritise other areas
of service that safeguard the well-being of our residents.
The Council will be in touch if we need any further information.
Yours sincerely,
Information Management Team
Buckinghamshire Council
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Dear Buckinghamshire Council,
I have not had a response to my FOI request which was sent on 29 April 2020.
Please can you let me know when I can expect to hear from you?
Yours faithfully,
Carol Linton
Good afternoon
Please accept my apologies, I have chased this up and hope to be able to provide an update shortly.
Regards
Amy
Dear Buckinghamshire Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Buckinghamshire Council's handling of my FOI request 'School placement planning estimates and actual data'.
3 weeks ago, Buckinghamshire Council said they would chase the request and let me know what is happening.
I know that this data is readily available to the council on a government data base. Why cant they respond to the question on how they plan pupil numbers in the south of the county?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/s...
Yours faithfully,
Carol Linton
Dear Carol Linton
Thank you for your request for information received on 29 April 2020
concerning school placement planning estimates and actual data. Please
accept my apologies for the delay.
This request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I can confirm that Buckinghamshire Council does hold information falling
within the description specified in your request. Please find the
relevant details. Please see attached.
On 1 April 2020, the new Buckinghamshire Council replaced the five former
councils in Buckinghamshire (Aylesbury Vale District Council,
Buckinghamshire County Council, Chiltern District Council, South Bucks
District Council and Wycombe District Council).
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