Executive Decisions

To appoint a Group A representative to fill a vacancy on the Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education.

That the following appointment be made to the Bracknell Forest Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE):

·                     Vicki Gibson, of Wokingham Baptist Church as a member of Group A: Christian denominations and other religions.

RESOLVED that the Executive Member for Children, Young People & Learning:

i.      Noted the outcomes of the consultation into admission arrangements.

ii.     Following a public consultation, agreed to add children of staff to the oversubscription criteria for community and voluntary controlled primary and secondary schools.

iii.    Following recent guidance from the Department for Education a public consultation was held and it is agreed to add an oversubscription criterion that includes children adopted from outside of England.

iv.   Following discussions with the Oxford Diocese and the Governors of the school, followed by a public consultation, it is to agreed to remove the denominational criterion from the admission arrangements for Winkfield St Mary's CE Primary School.

v.    Following a public consultation it is agreed that the annual admission arrangements for 2020/21 as set out in Appendices A to D of the Assistant Director, Education & Learning’s report.

It was RESOLVED that the Council:

1              undertakes public consultation on the submission version of the Warfield Neighbourhood Plan pursuant to Regulation 16; and

2          appoints an independent Examiner to undertake the examination of the Warfield Neighbourhood Plan pursuant to paragraph 7 of Schedule 4B of the Act and Regulation 17.