School Organisation Strategy 2019 DRAFT London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham School Organisation Strategy 2019 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY..............................................................................................................................................1 1. PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES...........................................................................................................................6 2. BACKGROUND AND TIMELINE........................................................................................................................7 3. SCHOOL PLACE PLANNING...........................................................................................................................10 3.1. school popularity ........................................................................................................................................11 4. NEED FOR SCHOOL PLACES ........................................................................................................................12 4.1. how school places are projected .............................................................................................................12 4.2. primary roll projections ..............................................................................................................................13 4.3. secondary roll projections .........................................................................................................................14 5. LBHF SCHOOL ADMISSIONS, AND PROMOTING LOCAL SCHOOLS .....................................................15 5.1. pupil mobility and cross border movement.............................................................................................17 5.1.1. primary pupil mobility.................................................................................................................................17 5.1.2. primary cross border movement ..............................................................................................................17 5.1.3. secondary pupil mobility............................................................................................................................18 5.1.4. secondary cross border movement.........................................................................................................19 5.1.5. independent sector ....................................................................................................................................19 5.2. looked after children (LAC).......................................................................................................................20 6. SCHOOL PROVISION, FUNDING, AND INVESTMENT.................................................................................20 6.1. Basic Need allocation funding..................................................................................................................21 6.2. schools funding formulae..........................................................................................................................21 6.3. planning and infrastructure contributions: CIL and S106 .....................................................................22 6.4. DfE allocations for Basic Need provision................................................................................................23 6.5. investment programme .............................................................................................................................23 6.6. capital board school regeneration programme ......................................................................................23 7. IMPACT OF SCHOOL ROLLS ON FINANCIAL STABILITY .........................................................................23 7.1. how school funding works.........................................................................................................................23 8. HOUSING REGENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT......................................................................................24 8.1. regeneration area 1 – North .....................................................................................................................24 8.2. regeneration area 2 – South.....................................................................................................................26 8.3. local plan - school place provision...........................................................................................................26 9. SCHOOL ESTATE AND MAINTENANCE .......................................................................................................26 10. SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES (SEND) AND INCLUSION ...................................27 10.1. SEN provision.............................................................................................................................................28 10.2. SEND schools and resource bases.........................................................................................................29 10.3. special school cross border movement ..................................................................................................30 10.4. education health care plans (EHCP).......................................................................................................31 10.5. SEND pupil roll projection and place planning ......................................................................................32 11. ALTERNATIVE PROVISION .............................................................................................................................34 12. SECONDARY EDUCATION (11-18-YEARS-OLD) .........................................................................................35 12.1. KEY STAGE 3 (Y7-Y9) ..............................................................................................................................36 12.2. KEY STAGE 4 (Y10-Y11)..........................................................................................................................36 12.3. KEY STAGE 5 (Y12-Y13)..........................................................................................................................37 13. OFSTED INSPECTIONS AND NEW POLICIES ..............................................................................................37 14. CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................................37 15. RECOMMENDATIONS......................................................................................................................................38 Appendix 1: LBHF School Map....................................................................................................................................41 Appendix 2: Nursery, Primary Secondary, Special and AP Map Reference Key.................................................42 Appendix 3: Primary Place Applications PA1 North .................................................................................................44 Appendix 4: Primary Place Applications PA2 South.................................................................................................45 Appendix 5: Secondary Place Applications ...............................................................................................................47 Appendix 6: Planned School Place Proposals by Neighbouring Boroughs ..........................................................48 Appendix 7: Glossary: Definition of schools (GOV.uk).............................................................................................52 Executive Summary LB Hammersmith and Fulham is a long, narrow borough running north to south bordered by Brent to the north; Kensington and Chelsea to the east; Wandsworth and Richmond-Upon- Thames to the south; and Ealing and Hounslow to the west. Excluding the City of London, Hammersmith and Fulham is the third smallest of the London boroughs in terms of area, covering 1,640 hectares. The borough population was recorded at 182,493 at the time of the 2011 Census. Current estimates for 2018 show that the LBHF population has risen by 1.4% to 185,004, the third lowest population growth in London. The combined effects of decreasing child yield and historical increase in school places has resulted in there being more school places available than needed. School expansion programmes put in place to accommodate extra pupils from anticipated housing schemes and approval of new free school (academy) settings have created too many primary school places in Hammersmith and Fulham. At secondary phase there is a healthy surplus to absorb larger numbers of primary pupils as they feed through at Y7 transition. However, the surplus at secondary level is not evenly distributed and some high schools remain under subscribed. Due to delays in the delivery of development schemes such as the Old Oak Park Royal and Earl’s Court developments, young families expected to create additional need at primary level have not arrived but their absence was concealed by the baby boom which started around 2011. Now many primary schools are under pressure as they struggle to remain financially viable with smaller cohorts and reduced budgets. In 20101 34 primary settings in LBHF had approximately 9,345 primary places in Reception to Y6 classes which equates to around 311.5 classes (30 pupils per class) and maintained about a 7% (6.85%) surplus of pupil