Decision details

Date of Decision:

12/05/2025

Title:

Todwick Primary School – Request to lower the age range to create a Foundation 1 class

Decision Maker:

(Including Job Title)

Nicola Curley Director of children Services (DCS)

Details of Specific Delegation

or

Delegation contained in the relevant Sub-Scheme of Delegation.

Under the Council scheme of delegation this decision can be administered under the Officer Executive Decision Process.

According to Appendix 9 Responsibility for Functions, Section 4C4 the Strategic Director of Children and Young People’s Services is authorised to discharge executive functions for: Education Place Planning.

Decision:

To extend the age of Todwick Primary School from 4 to 11 year olds to 3 to 11 year olds.

Reasons for the Decision:

This will allow the Local Authority to meet it statutory duty to ensure that the is sufficient early years provision.

Details of alternative options considered and rejected:

This was the only school in the area that met the requirements to apply for additional DfE capital funding to expand provision (for which they were successful).  Creation of additional capacity elsewhere in the locality would not have been viable without the additional DfE capital.

Conflicts of interest declared by any Cabinet Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to the decision:

none

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

none

Conflicts of interest declared by the Decision Maker if they sit as a Cabinet appointed representative to an outside body which relates to the decision:

none

Dispensations Granted:

(If any)

none

Reports or parts of reports considered

Todwick Primary School – Request to lower the age range to create a Foundation 1 class by Niall Devlin.