Pupil Access & Community Services

                                                                                Admissions and Eligibility

                                                                                County Hall

                                                                                Martineau Lane

                                                                                Norwich

                                                                                NR1 2DL

 

                                                                                Minicom: (01603) 223833

 

                                                                                                             Mr R Snowden

 

                        PACS/RS/LB                                                                        (01603) 223489

 

                        5th February 2003                                                      (01603) 223838

 

                                                                                                 email: richard.snowden.edu@norfolk.gov.uk

                       

 

 

Chair of Governors All Foundation and VA Primary and Secondary Schools

 

Dear Colleague

 

 

Admissions Consultation September 2004

 

Consultation packs were sent out on 10th January 2003 seeking comments on proposals for Community and Voluntary Controlled schools admission arrangements for September 2004 and providing further information for Foundation and VA schools in changes to admission legislation effective from September 2004.  The packs referred to an admission consultation website being developed to allow schools to respond on line to LEA proposals to allow Foundation and VA Primary schools to undertake their consultations electronically.  This is intended to avoid Foundation and VA schools having to send a copy of their proposals to all Norfolk schools.

 

The web site is finally now available and the address is: www.esinet.norfolk.gov.uk/pacs/admission.

 

If you wish to use this web site to undertake your statutory consultation please forward an electronic copy of your proposals to me at the above email address and these will be mounted as soon as possible.  As soon as they are available a link will appear on the above page which will take consultees to the school proposals and allow a comment to be made.  Individual schools will be able to access comments made about their proposals.  Consultation must be concluded before 1st March 2003 and governors must then have regard to any comment when they finalise their arrangements for 2004.  This must be done by 15th April 2003 and if final arrangements are confirmed to me electronically these will then be placed on the web site as all admission authorities are required to notify all authorities of the determined arrangement by 29th April 2003.

 

                                                                                             Continued…

 

 

 

 Admissions Consultation                        -2-                        5th February 2003

 

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I hope the web site helps to make this potentially complex paper process significantly easier to manage for all admission authorities. 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

Richard Snowden

Head of Admissions and Eligibility

 

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