Decision details

Dove First School: Outcome of Consultation on a Change from Community School to Church of England Voluntary Controlled (VC) School

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Seeking approval for publication of a statutory proposal to close Dove First School on 31 August 2016, subject to a linked proposal from the Lichfield Board of Education to open the school as a Church of England Voluntary Controlled (VC) school on 1 September 2016.

Decisions:

“Schools benefit tremendously from working together and forming links with their peers.  Dove First is already a ‘good’ school as rated by Ofsted, and this can only be enhanced by closer ties with the Lichfield Diocese and access to the additional support they can offer.

 

Increasingly our schools are becoming self-supporting, controlling their own destiny and forming strong partnerships and networks.  I am pleased that the school want to form strong partnerships with the Diocese and neighbouring church schools.  This conversion marks a new chapter in the school’s history, one which will eventually see them forge closer ties with Ryecroft, and take advantage of a brand new building with excellent facilities.”

 

Ben Adams, Cabinet Member for Learning and Skills

 

Reasons for the Decision – To consider the responses received and to determine whether to progress the proposal to publish a formal statutory proposal to close Dove First School linked with a proposal from the Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education that the school opens as a new Church of England voluntary controlled (VC) school on 1 September 2016.

 

Decision – That the publication of a statutory proposal to close Dove First School on 31 August 2016 be approved subject to a linked proposal from the Lichfield Diocesan Board of Education to open the school as a Church of England voluntary controlled (VC) school on 1 September 2016.

Report author: Geoff Crockett

Publication date: 21/01/2016

Date of decision: 20/01/2016

Decided at meeting: 20/01/2016 - Cabinet

Effective from: 27/01/2016

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