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Saturday 30 August 2008

School Organisation

Statutory Proposals

We publish Statutory Notices of proposed changes to School Organisation in Liverpool on the Schools and Colleges page of the web site.

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Liverpool Primary School Review 2008

Over the next 18 months Liverpool City Council will be reviewing primary school organisation across the City.  The government has promised money to improve at least half our primary schools over the next fifteen years.  This will help us to re-structure primary school buildings giving us the flexibility to deal with changes in population.

The keys aims of the review are to:

Improve quality and standards
Secure the entitlement of every child in Liverpool to the Every Child Matters outcomes which are:

Enjoy and Achieve
Be Healthy
Stay Safe
Make a Positive Contribution, and;
Achieve Economic Well-Being

Support community regeneration
Maintain diversity and promote parental preference

Background to the Review

There are 32,688 primary school children in the City. The number has fallen by roughly 1,000 a year for the past ten years.  Although the rate at which it is falling has now slowed, we still expect it to fall by the year 2013 to 30,356 - a loss of another 2,000 children.  This fall in population has left 27 schools in the city with more than quarter of their places empty.

Over the next five years the number of schools in this position is likely to rise to 38 so the Local Authority needs to find ways to address this problem.

Phase One

Phase one of the review covers the Kirkdale, Everton and Croxteth wards of the City.

Copies of the full review document for each area and a short summary document can be downloaded below. A copy of the summary document has been given to parents of children attending primary schools in the area.

For the majority of schools there are no specific proposals.

Where a proposal would involve major changes to a school we will hold meetings for staff, governors and parents at that school to explain the proposal in more detail and to hear people's views. Details of any meetings we have planned in Phase One are given in the summary documents.

KIRKDALE AND EVERTON WARDS

PRIMARY REVIEW PHASE ONE: FULL DOCUMENT KIRKDALE & EVERTON WARDS

SUMMARY DOCUMENT: KIRKDALE AND EVERTON WARDS

CROXTETH WARD

PRIMARY REVIEW PHASE ONE: FULL DOCUMENT CROXTETH WARD

SUMMARY DOCUMENT: CROXTETH WARD

Please submit any comments on the review in writing by 30th July 2008 to:

Primary School Review
School Organisation Team
Children's Services
Municipal Buildings
Dale Street
Liverpool
L2 2DH

or by e-mail to Jeanette.smith@liverpool.gov.uk

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Proposals for the future of Secondary School provision in the Clubmoor, Croxteth and Norris Green Area

The City Council is consulting on proposals for the future of secondary school provision in the Clubmoor, Croxteth and Norris Green Area.

You can download a copy of the full consultation document below

The consultation is open until midnight on 23rd July 2008.

We welcome views on the proposals set out in the document.

CONSULTATION DOCUMENT

CONSULTATION LEAFLET

You can submit views in writing to:

Clubmoor, Croxteth & Norris Green Secondary Consultation,
School Organisation Team, 
Children's Services,
Municipal Buildings,
Dale Street, 
Liverpool  
L2 2DH

or via email to pat.scott@liverpool.gov.uk

You can also access the record of the earlier 'Open' consultation held in the area from 14th January to 14th March 2008 in a series of documents below

• Introductory Note

• Children's Issues Paper

• Responses to Children's Issues Paper

• Neighbourhood Committee Minute

• Record of discussions in secondary school parents' workshops

• Primary parents' questionnaire

• Analysis of responses to parents' questionnaire

• Record of discussions in primary school parents' focus groups

• Record of meetings with pupils

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The School Organisation Plan (SOP)

We published the first SOP in 1999.   It covered a five year period.  The SOP:

• highlighted issues relating to school provision; 
• outlined the action needed to address those issues;
• included statistics and projections; and
• contained policies and principles for school organisation.                                                               

It did not include specific proposals. 

We continued to publish it each year until 2003.    

The 2003-08 School Organisation Plan

The 2003-08 SOP is available below.

Download the School Organisation Plan (2003-08) 

The SOP has now been replaced by the Children and Young People's Plan.   

We have continued to update the statistics and projections.  There are updates for each year since the SOP was last published.

2004
Download Summer 2004 statistical updates (part one)
Download Summer 2004 statistical updates (part two)

2005
Download Summer 2005 statistical updates (part one)
Download Summer 2005 statistical updates (part two)
Download Summer 2005 statistical updates (part three - secondary)

2006
Download Summer 2006 statistical updates (part one)
Download Summer 2006 statistical updates (part two)
Download Summer 2006 statistical updates (part three - secondary)

2007
Download Summer 2007 statistical updates 

School Organisation Policy

Liverpool revised its School Organisation Policy in 2007.  This replaces the one in the SOP.

You can download a copy below.

Liverpool School Organisation Policy 2007

All of the documents listed on this page are Adobe PDF documents. 
If you have problems accessing PDFs you can download a PDF viewer, use a PDF conversion tool or find out more about PDF accessibility.

Contact us
You can contact the Liverpool School Organisation Team 
by email at StratPlanRegen@liverpool.gov.uk or by phone on 0151 233 2854.