School Place Planning Strategy - Annex 1 The Strategy 2

School Place Planning Strategy Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames November 2020 CONTENTS Page Subject Background Developments since June 2017 10 Primary phase 20 Secondary phase 23 Special schools, specialist resource provisions and SEND forecasting 28 Early Years 31 Financial implications 31 Contact 32 Appendix 1: Reception class capacity, 2008–2020 33 Appendix 2: Year capacity, 2012–2020 34 Appendix 3: SRP capacity 37 Appendix 4: Growth in SEND school places, 2017–2028 38 Appendix 5: Approved and proposed housing developments in the borough BACKGROUND 1.1 In June 2017, Kingston Council’s then Growth Committee adopted a revised School Place Planning Strategy, following the adoption of a previous version in November 2012 which was revised in March 2013 1.2 This report therefore:  provides an update on the provision of new school places since the June 2017 Strategy, and;  analyses demand for additional school places, particularly in the secondary phase and for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND);  considers how that demand could be met; and  gives options for securing local school provision, to ensure that children and young people can be educated within their home community, without being dependent on private car usage for home to school travel 1.3 Assumptions regarding long-term demand are based upon the Greater London Authority’s and the Office of National Statistics’ pupil and general population projections respectively, but are naturally more speculative than those used to inform the short- to medium-term demand 1.4 The Mayor’s ‘Intend to Publish’ new London Plan (December 2019)1 sets a target for an additional 9,640 net new homes, including 2,250 from small sites, to be provided in Kingston Borough over a 10 year period between 2019/2020 and 2028/2029, equating to 1,364 per year Assessing the impact of this target is difficult, and is difficult to plan for in a pre-emptive manner, other than by the general principle of working closely with Council planning strategy officers to ensure that any large-scale housing developments are flagged up and considered, in terms of the need for additional school places, at the earliest possible opportunity 1.5 In addition, paragraphs 2.1.24–2.1.26 of the Mayor’s ‘Intend to Publish’ new London Plan identifies Kingston as an ‘Opportunity Area’: The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames’s network of town centres with their good levels of public transport accessibility have been identified as areas capable of accommodating development and intensification to provide leisure, cultural and night-time activity, commercial and retail uses, as well as high density housing A Direction of Travel document was adopted in 2016 to guide planning policies in these areas In particular it identified four areas where there is scope for significant change: • Kingston Town Centre • Norbiton, London Road and Cambridge Road Estate • New Malden • Tolworth https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/intend_to_publish_-_clean.pdf These areas are capable of supporting some development in the short and medium term However, once Crossrail is operational, the borough will benefit from more Crossrail stations than any other and the arrival of the new, higher frequency, higher capacity service will enable significant additional growth opportunities in these areas It will improve Kingston’s attractiveness as an office location and therefore support additional commercial growth in the town centre, building on links with Kingston University and Kingston College The Local Plan and/or Planning Framework should set out how Crossrail will support and deliver further growth and intensification in these areas It should also explore how the use of industrial land can be intensified to make more efficient use of land Kingston town centre, with its ancient market is rich in heritage and forms an important part of the setting of Hampton Court Palace, its gardens, the Thames and surrounding Royal Parks In the longer term, and following the opening of Crossrail in the 2030s, there may be potential for selective redevelopment in the following areas: • Berrylands Station and Hogsmill Valley • Chessington 1.6 The Mayor’s ‘Intend to Publish’ new London Plan goes on to state that, To ensure there is a sufficient supply of good quality education and childcare facilities to meet demand and offer educational choice, boroughs should: 1) Prepare Development Plans that are informed by a needs assessment of education and childcare facility needs Needs should be assessed locally and subregionally, addressing cross-boundary issues Needs assessments should include an audit of existing facilities 2) Identify sites for future provision through the Development Plan process, particularly in areas with significant planned growth or need for school places (including Special Educational Needs and Disability places) 3) Ensure that development proposals for housing and commercial facilities incorporate suitable childcare provision and encourage nursery provision within primary schools, where there is a need This Strategy therefore includes an audit of existing state-funded school capacity insofar as that can be objectively assessed for schools which are outside the Council’s control 1.7 More generally, the Plan also states that, There is a growing need for school places in London, with projected need for 705,000 mainstream state-funded primary school places required for the academic year 2018/19 This is an increase of 7,000 over the number of places required in 2016/17 The level of need is projected to fall to 686,000 places a year by 2027/28 In 2016/17, there was a need for 403,000 places in mainstream state-funded secondary schools The number of places required is projected to increase by 65,000, over the period to 2027/28 This need, particularly for secondary school places, requires a strategic approach to delivery, making it harder to quantify within individual boroughs Boroughs are encouraged to work together to meet the needs for secondary school places Where possible, sites for schools should be allocated within Development Plans There is a need for an increase in Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provision in London and it is important that these places are planned for 1.8 It is considered that the work undertaken to provide additional school places in the last 10 years has given the borough a solid platform from which it can meet the challenges of the coming years However, forecasting and meeting demand for school places in a borough where educational standards and parental expectations are generally high is not, and never has been, straightforward, not least because of rivers, major roads and railways which present barriers to changed school admission patterns: the Thames, the Hogsmill, the A3 (Kingston bypass) and the south-west mainline railway 1.9 It should be acknowledged that the significant progress made in recent times has involved the usage of much of the usable space on existing schools’ sites It is also the case that opportunities for the Council or the Department for Education (DfE) and its agencies to acquire and use new sites for school provision have become much scarcer 1.10 It is noted, too, that despite the Council’s wish to see school places provided locally, where they are needed, its inability, by law, to establish state-funded schools and to decide the location of new schools are constraints which impede its efforts to meet is statutory duty, as outlined in Section 14 of the Education Act 1996 (as amended), to provide school places for residents, and particularly within their home community 1.11 It should be borne in mind that several different factors influence forecast and actual pupil numbers:          Live-birth data On-roll numbers; Historical admission patterns; Economic change, i.e post-Covid downturn/recession leading to more parents/carers opting for state-funded schools or upturn leading to more parents/carers opting for private schools; Migration patterns, both from and to countries outside the UK, possibly as result of the ‘Brexit factor,’ and from within the UK, particularly from inner to outer London; Housing development / regeneration; Parental perception of individual schools, which can sometimes be historical and not reflective of current educational standards, either good or not; Ofsted inspection outcomes for state-funded schools both in and outside the borough; and Provision of additional, or removal of, school places in neighbouring local authority areas Any combination of these factors is complex and therefore not straightforward to predict The impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have added to that complexity 1.12 Despite the many contingent factors, the DfE’s quality assurance places Kingston in the top quartile nationally for the accuracy of its pupil forecasts: in June 2019, the DfE published their ‘Local Authority School Places Scorecards’2 for 2018, which showed very small over-forecasts of primary numbers and under-forecasts of secondary: Phase Primary Secondary Accuracy within the previous year +0.3% -0.6% Accuracy within the previous three years +1.0% -1.8% The 2019 scorecards3, published in June 2020, were as follows: Phase Primary Secondary Accuracy within the previous year -0.8% -0.2% Accuracy within the previous three years +2.8% -1.0% 1.13 With a large number of major planning applications having been approved in the last few years and with others due to come forward, it has become necessary to create a Kingston Borough specific formula for estimating the likely ‘pupil yield’ In order to start that work, a cross-party working group met twice earlier in 2020, and recommended that survey work be undertaken with households in some recently-occupied large housing developments To that end, an online survey was undertaken in September and October 2020 of the 315 households of the Queenshurst development, on the site of the former gasholder, in Sury Basin, North Kingston, in which residents were asked to say if they have any school-age children and, if so, what their children’s ages are, whether those children are still attending the same school they attended prior to moving into the development, and what types of school the children are attending Unfortunately, the response rate was low and it is considered that further surveys need to be undertaken of other newly occupied housing developments to enable a sufficiently large enough sample from which data can be used to inform a borough-wide pupil yield formula 1.14 Appendix contains data relating to recent and proposed housing developments, including the pupil yield figures derived from using the GLA population calculator, albeit that it is a generic calculator, which, although it can be set to ‘outer London’, takes no account of the specific local circumstances of Kingston, particularly the dampener percentages, and it only breaks the children down by age, rather than by type of school (i.e primary, secondary and special) See: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-school-places-scorecards-2018 See: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-authority-school-places-scorecards-2019 DEVELOPMENTS SINCE JUNE 2017 Primary phase 2.1 The closure, in August 2020, of Kingston Community School (KCS), the two-form-entry free school which opened in September 2015, will have a significant impact on the forecasts in the Primary planning areas 1, and The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) were unable to deliver the school’s permanent accommodation, on the Kingstons House site, in Coombe Road, Norbiton, despite achieving planning permission in January 2017, and that impacted on parental confidence in the school; that, in turn, meant that recruitment and retention of pupil numbers was always difficult and seriously impacted upon the school’s budgetary position, to the point where the DfE deemed the school to be financially unviable 2.2 As detailed in the 2017 Strategy, the ESFA were originally unable to secure a suitable site in Surbiton/Tolworth for the proposed two-form-entry free school GEMS Surbiton Primary Academy, which was approved by the then Secretary of State in 2014 The ESFA, instead, acquired Swan House and two adjacent buildings in High Street, Kingston, with a view to the school opening there as Kingston Primary Academy Planning permission was granted in September 2017 for the school’s permanent accommodation on that site, but, in the same tendering process for KCS, the ESFA were unable to procure a development partner As a result, in 2018, the DfE notified the Council that the school’s opening had been deferred for a fifth time, to September 2020 Since then, discussions between the ESFA/DfE and the Council/AfC have resulted in a proposal for the school to be established in the area it had originally been approved to serve, by the Council long-leasing the King Charles Centre site in Hollyfield Road, Surbiton The Council’s Finance and Partnerships Committee agreed the lease arrangements at its meeting in October 2019, with a view to the requisite demolition and new build happening in time to enable the school to open in September 2022 Since then, though, the Covid-19 pandemic has moved that date back to September 2023 2.3 As a result of the many deferrals of the opening of GEMS Surbiton Primary Academy, the Council has had to arrange a ‘bulge’ Reception class in Surbiton/Tolworth in every year from 2013 onwards, most recently at Tolworth Infant in the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 school years and Christ Church Primary (Surbiton) in 2020/2021 Christ Church will also be able to accommodate bulge classes in 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 2.4 In order to provide additional places to keep pace with proposed housing developments in New Malden, informal consultation was undertaken in April and May 2019 on proposals to expand Burlington Infant and Burlington Junior However, the Infants’ decided that they did not wish to be permanently expanded, so the Council formally consulted on expanding Burlington Junior only The Council’s Children’s and Adults' Care and Education Committee approved that proposal at its meeting in November 2019 Subject to planning approval, it is likely that Burlington Juniors’ new accommodation will be ready in good time for September 2023, although it is unlikely that the school will need to move to five-form entry until 2025 or 2026 at the earliest Before a bulge class in reception is provided in New Malden, which would feed into Burlington Junior at Year 3, the Council needs first to be sure that spare capacity at King’s Oak becomes filled 2.5 Appendix shows how the Reception class capacity of individual infant and primary schools changed between 2008 and 2020 Secondary phase 2.6 The numbers of in-borough applicants for Year places increased by 268 (16.3%) between 2015 and 2019, followed by an expected one-year dip in 2020, as the table below shows Year of entry Number of applicants 2.7 2015 1,642 2016 1,709 2017 1,642 2018 1,758 2019 1,910 2020 1,853 The increased numbers of applications were absorbed within existing capacity up to and including the 2018 intake, but additional places have been provided since then: 2019: 30 each at Coombe Boys’ and The Hollyfield and 15 at Southborough; 2020: 30 each at Coombe Boys’, The Hollyfield and the Kingston Academy 2.8 The Council does not have sufficient capital available to expand existing schools in the borough to the extent that enough additional places would be created to meet forecast demand The only way to meet that need is through the provision of another new secondary school Unfortunately, the last two free school application waves have been solely for areas of low social mobility and low educational attainment, thereby closing off any possibility that an application for a new secondary free school in Kingston upon Thames would be approved 2.9 The Diocese of Southwark has continued to work to fulfil their aspiration to open a voluntary-aided Church of England secondary school in the borough In December 2018, the DfE invited bids for new voluntary-aided schools for which they would pay 90% of the capital costs, on the condition that the local authority in whose area the educational provider wanted to establish the school would provide a site on a peppercorn-rent basis and pay the remaining 10% Accordingly, after consultation with the Council, the Diocese of Southwark submitted an application for a six-form entry 11–16 Church of England secondary school to be established, subject to formal agreement of a long-lease arrangement, on Council-owned land between Hampden Road and the Kingsmeadow Stadium car park The Secretary of State conditionally approved the application in April 2020, subject to a number of factors, including: full site feasibility; publication (by the Diocese) and approval (by the Council’s Children’s and Adult Care Committee, acting as ‘local decision-maker’) of a statutory proposal to establish the school; formal leasing of the site; and planning approval for the requisite build The Diocese is due to publish its statutory proposal in November 2020 2.10 The school would be a natural destination for some of the children attending the 10 Church of England primary-phase school in the borough, but the school’s oversubscription criteria would allocate 120 of the 180 places to any applicants, and 60 to children whose families provided evidence of Anglican or other Christian faith/practice 2.11 Appendix shows how the Year capacity within the borough changed between 2012 and 2020 Special schools 2.12 The Council has short-term leased the former School Lane Community Centre site in Tolworth to enable a second site for Dysart School, providing 15 primary-phase places, from September 2019 Although discrete, the site’s location beside Tolworth Infant and Junior Schools affords inclusion opportunities for the children concerned in mainstream lessons and other activities, as appropriate, and reciprocally provides additional, more specialist SEND expertise for Tolworth Infant and Junior Schools 2.13 The Council has also funded a new building to enable the expansion of St Philip’s School from 143 places to 183, from September 2018 2.14 In October 2018, AfC submitted two special free school applications, one in Kingston for children and young people with ASD and one in Richmond for children and young people with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) needs In March 2019, the DfE approved both applications Each school will have 90 places; the Kingston school will reserve 60 places for Kingston-resident children and 30 for Richmond-resident children, and the Richmond school will have those proportions in reverse The Kingston school is proposed, subject to formal decision-making, to open in September 2023 on the Moor Lane Centre site, where it will have synergy with the Respite Centre which has recently been built there Ambitious About Autism have been appointed as the education provider for the school 2.15 Work is ongoing to provide additional special school places in the borough (see Section 5) Specialist Resource Provisions (SRPs) 2.16 AfC undertook consultation in early 2018 on proposals to expand existing and establish new SRPs for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream schools, and the response was largely very positive An SRP can be defined as, ‘a mainstream school teaching space where places are reserved for children who have a specific type of SEND which requires an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP), and who are taught mainly within mainstream classes, but require a base and some specialist facilities within, the school concerned’ Since then, expansions of SRPs have taken place at Surbiton Children’s Centre Nursery, Castle Hill Primary and Latchmere, providing 28 additional places between them 2.17 Four new SRPs have been established since September 2018, providing 66 places between them, as follows:  King Athelstan (six places for children with SEMH);  Coombe Girls’ (30 places for girls with Hearing Impairment and/or other Communication Needs);  The Hollyfield (20 places for children and young people with ASD);  Tolworth Girls (10 places for girls with Emotional Health needs, including Autism) 2.18 From September 2021, the Enhanced Specialist Teaching Arrangement (ESTA) in place at Alexandra School will be changed into an ESTA for infant years and an SRP for junior 2.19 Appendix contains a list of current and planned SRPs in the borough 2.20 Appendix shows the planned growth in SEND school places from 2017 to 2028: 146 additional places have been created since 2017 and (at least) a further 110 places will be created by 2028 PRIMARY PHASE 3.1 As reported in the June 2017 strategy, since 2014 the Council has ensured the permanent provision of six forms of Reception entry, which provide 180 extra places per year and 1,260 primary phase places in total; and nine forms of Year entry, which provide 270 extra places per year and 1,350 secondary phase places in total 3.2 For the purposes of primary school place planning, the borough is divided into areas, which are co-terminous with one or more electoral wards, as follows:         3.3 Area 1: North Kingston – Canbury and Tudor wards Area 2: Kingston Town and Norbiton – Grove and Norbiton wards Area 3: Chessington and Hook – Chessington North & Hook, and Chessington South wards Area 4: Surbiton – St Mark’s and Surbiton Hill wards Area 5: Tolworth and Berrylands – Alexandra, Berrylands, and Tolworth & Hook Rise wards Area 6: New Malden and Coombe – Beverley, Coombe Vale and St James wards Area 7: Old Malden and Worcester Park – Old Malden ward Area 8: Coombe Hill – Coombe Hill ward The ward boundaries are shown on this map: 10 Borough Bedelsford Dysart Kingston St Philip’s New school Borough total Capella House Clarendon inc The Gateway Strathmore Richmond New school Borough total Designation Physical disabilities, profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD), multisensory impairments and complex learning disabilities including complex health needs Severe learning disabilities (SLD) and a large majority have a diagnosis of autism Some pupils have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex health needs Moderate learning difficulties (MLD) Many pupils have additional needs, e.g mild to moderate autism, language impairment or emotional issues; a few have sensory or medical needs ASD-specific Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) Moderate learning difficulties and additional complex needs including autism Severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties and autism Social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) Places Age-range 2–19 119 5–19 120 175 (183 in 2020) 90 504 72 148 98 90 408 9–19 4–19 4–19 4–16 4–19 7–19 Specialist Resource Provisions (SRPs) 5.5 The June 2017 strategy stated that proposals would be consulted upon in March 2017 for establishing new and expanding existing specialist resource provisions As noted in Section 2, the consultation and proposals resulted in 94 additional SRP places being provided since then Appendix outlines the capacity and designation of all the current SRPs within the borough 5.6 Further proposals will be put forward and consulted upon, subject to the availability of additional capital SEND forecasting 5.7 AfC commissioned an external data company to analyse recent trends and forecast the likely need for places in future years That modelling included the impact which the additional SEND places already provided or planned will have on the filling of gaps and on the revenue costs incurred by the Council 5.8 Recent and forecast (using ONS population data) incidences of EHCPs by year-groupings within the borough are as follows: 24 As can be seen, steep increases in secondary-phase and post-16 demand are forecast, mainly because there will be many more children within the secondary phase in general 5.9 The chart below shows the forecast incidence of EHCPs by primary needs: 25 It is clear that the three main needs will continue to be ASD, SLCN and SEMH, and that they will continue to grow in incidence, most especially ASD In addition, significantly large numbers of Kingston-resident children with MLD and SpLD will continue to need EHCPs 5.10 The charts below and on the next page shows how the additional places recently, and set to be, provided, in state-funded special schools and specialist resource provisions have reduced / will reduce, the Council’s dependence on the independent sector for the provision of SEND school places: 26 27 EARLY YEARS 6.1 As with Reception class places, demand for free Early Years places in the borough is very high According to the borough’s Childcare Sufficiency Audit for 2018/20194, 26 of the borough’s 301 childcare providers are ‘maintained’ nurseries: 25 of the 31 infant and primary schools in the borough have attached state-funded nurseries, and there is one stand-alone nursery school, Surbiton Nursery The table below identifies the number of full-time equivalent places currently available at each school Some schools are providing the 30 hours entitlement offer to eligible working parents, either via current capacity or in partnership with as part of wrap around provision Nursery Alexandra Burlington Infant Castle Hill Primary Christ Church Primary (New Malden) Corpus Christi Catholic Primary Ellingham Primary Fern Hill Primary Grand Avenue Primary Green Lane Primary King Athelstan Primary King’s Oak Primary Knollmead Primary Latchmere Lime Tree Primary Lovelace Primary Malden Manor Primary Malden Parochial C of E Primary Maple Infants’ Robin Hood Primary St Agatha’s Catholic Primary St John’s C of E Primary St Joseph’s Catholic Primary St Luke’s C of E Primary St Mary’s C of E Primary Surbiton Children’s Centre Nursery Tolworth Infant Total 6.2 Places 78 104 78 52 52 26 52 52 34 52 104 26 78 26 52 52 26 52 52 52 52 52 52 26 118 52 1,452 Each school allocates its own places in accordance with published oversubscription criteria For the community schools, the nursery criteria are the same as for Reception class places, i.e most places are allocated to siblings and on the basis of home-to-school distance (However, it should be noted that attendance at the nursery or having a younger sibling at the nursery does not form part of the criteria for entry to Reception and higher primary year-groups.) See: https://www.kingston.gov.uk/downloads/file/3078/kingston_childcare_sufficiency_update_201819 28 Unlike for entry to Reception, the Council does not have a statutory duty to coordinate applications for the nursery schools and therefore does not have any central role in nursery admissions 6.3 From the DfE Early Years Census 2019, there are 2,728, three- and four- year-olds accessing an Early Education place in the borough, with a further 1,289 four year olds in a maintained reception class 55% (1,516) of the Early Education places taken up are within the Private, Voluntary and Independent sector with the remaining places taken up in the maintained sector From the 2018 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment there are approximately 4,000 registered childcare places for nought- to five-year-olds within the borough The Council has a duty to ensure that there is sufficient childcare for those parents that need it Providing sufficient places at or within the early education funding rate is a significant challenge for the PVI sector, therefore, most of the free three- and four-year-old places are within the maintained nursery classes This places families with a low income at a disadvantage 6.4 Some School and PVI nurseries also offer free places for eligible two-year-olds Provision for two year olds to access early education places has increased, with nationally 40% of the population eligible For two-year-olds, the Council has a statutory duty to secure free early education places for every child in their area that is either looked-after, in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or who falls within the eligibility closely aligned to the criteria for free school meals From Department of Work and Pensions information, currently in Kingston 19% (444) of the two-year-old population are eligible, with 73% (322) of those children accessing a place in spring 2019 29% (93) of these children were in a school nursery 6.5 All Early Years providers who offer the early education entitlement must adhere to the provisions of the Department for Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage Framework However, maintained nurseries, with the support of Achieving for Children, are reviewing their offer to further meet the increased flexible childcare and early education needs of families and to support the ongoing sustainability of the nursery offer This may include offering 30 hours funding either to fill vacancies or as a fixed planned offer, offering wrap around care for early years children or working in partnership to offer and developing a two year old offer 6.6 For three- and four-year-olds, the Council has a statutory duty to secure early education funded places for every child in their area whose parents require it 6.7 From September 2017, for three- and four-year-olds, the Council has a statutory duty to secure early education places offering the extended 15 hours which will give 30 hours per week for 38 weeks a year, to children of working parents who meet the eligibility criteria A number of schools offer some ‘extended’ six-hour-a-day places to children eligible for the funding, this can be a planned offer of a small fixed number of places or a way of filling vacant sessions 6.8 For the current offer of 15 hours, evidence shows that parents are challenged to find places that are entirely free of charge for 15 hours per week for 38 weeks a year In January 2019, of the three-year-olds accessing Early Education Funding 44% of three-year-olds in the borough were accessing maintained nursery provision, 54% were in PVIs and 2% were in independent schools 6.9 There are three possible methods for providing additional maintained nursery places: 29 A Open new nurseries at other state-funded infant and primary schools within the borough There is no direct funding available for nursery expansion, but some additional capacity could be created as part of a school expansion If this option is pursued, the selection criteria must be based on current unmet need B Bring private nurseries on state-funded school sites into the maintained sector Some schools are already considering this option and are in discussion with the Early Years’ Service C Expand the number of places at some of the existing maintained nurseries All options to increase nursery places could also offer some additional new provision within the nursery class for disadvantaged two-year-olds The introduction of the 30 hours entitlement for working parents has given the opportunity for maintained schools to develop out of school provision either themselves or in partnership with a third party 6.10 The geographical distribution of the current maintained nurseries within the borough is good The expansion of statutory school age provision over the last few years has enabled the number of places to keep in line with children progressing through maintained school nurseries 6.11 However, demand is reducing for the traditional model of three-hour, five-day, 38-weeks-ayear nursery places This is causing sufficiency concerns for both maintained nurseries and private traditional sessional pre-schools with more families accessing flexible offers at full day nurseries or with childminders Sessional providers are therefore having to consider a more flexible offer; for maintained schools, this may mean looking at expanded hours, either selfdelivered or in partnership with private or voluntary providers either on- or off-site whilst ensuring that the traditional model, which most maintained schools offer, remains available for those disadvantaged families who may not access early years education if additional costs were involved 6.12 Across England, Local Authorities are working with schools to consider and make changes, such as reviewing the hours and age-range of the nursery offer, to offer a Governor-Led PreSchool (whereby the nursery becomes a separate voluntary provider with the governing body as the registered organisation) or to invite a private provider on-site who would work closely with the school concerned to offer the early years provision 30 FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS 7.1 Since 2011, the Council has received ‘Basic Need’ allocations5 from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) of £51,958,602, including the latest amount of £1,049,626 which covers the 2021/2022 period (No money was allocated for 2020/2021.) Those allocations, supported by additional Council funding, have funded the provision of 12.5 additional forms of Reception entry, including the establishment of Lime Tree Primary School in 2012 and, most recently, the conversion of Alexandra Infant and St Paul’s Church of England Junior into all-through primary schools from September 2016 A breakdown of how additional Reception places have been provided – permanently and temporarily – since 2007 is given in Appendix 7.2 The ESFA bear the capital costs of providing free school places However, if the Council wishes to long-lease sites within its ownership for new free schools (or voluntary-aided schools), then it would need to balance the financial saving of school places being provided without it having to spend any capital against the loss of potential income from the rent or permanent disposal of such sites In the case of the Church of England secondary school, the Council is required, as a condition of establishing the school, to pay 10% of the capital cost, estimated at £2.5m 7.3 Adding bulge classes in secondary schools would cost more, and be more difficult to achieve, than in primary schools since there would be pressure on specialised spaces, such as science labs 7.4 In addition to the capital costs, each expansion, whether permanent or temporary, would require revenue, to pay for seven-twelfths of the costs of a teacher, teaching assistant and other resources for the period from September to April, of c.£50,000 These costs are paid from the ‘Growth Fund’ element of the Council’s Dedicated Schools’ Grant 7.5 In March 2017, the ESFA allocated £1,688,448 to the Council for SEND capital projects, and topped it up in May 2018 with £392,662 and in December 2018 with £785,325, making a total of £2,866,435 This money has been, and is being, used to fund satellites of the special schools and the expansion and establishment of specialist resource provisions 7.6 The revenue savings to be accrued by having more state-funded SEND places available locally are significant and still being worked through based on average costings CONTACT Matthew Paul, Associate Director, School Place Planning, Achieving for Children; matthew.paul@achievingforchildren.org.uk See: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/basic-need-allocations 31 Appendix 1: Reception class capacity, 2008–2020 Year of Reception Entry Year of Year Transfer Area School Alexandra Fern Hill Latchmere St Agatha's St Luke's St Paul’s, Kingston Total King Athelstan King's Oak Kingston Commun St John's St Joseph's Total Castle Hill Ellingham Lovelace St Mary's St Paul's, Hook Total Lime Tree Maple St Matthew's Tolworth Total Christ Church Sur Grand Avenue Knollmead Our Lady Immacul Total Burlington Christ Church NM Coombe Hill Corpus Christi Total Green Lane Malden Manor Malden Parochial Total Robin Hood Total Overall total New permanent FE Number of bulges 2008 2015 2009 2016 2010 2017 2011 2018 2012 2019 2013 2020 2014 2021 2015 2022 2016 2023 2017 2024 2018 2025 2019 2026 2020 2027 90 90 90 60 30 90 90 120 60 30 60 60 90 90 60 90 90 120 60 30 90 90 120 60 30 120 120 120 60 30 90 90 150 60 30 90 90 120 60 60 360 60 60 390 60 60 360 60 60 390 60 60 390 60 90 450 60 90 420 60 90 30 30 180 60 30 90 30 30 240 30 60 210 90 30 90 30 30 270 30 60 210 90 60 60 30 30 270 90 45 90 225 90 60 30 60 240 120 60 120 60 360 60 60 30 150 30 30 1785 90 60 120 270 90 60 60 60 270 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 30 30 1860 8.5 60 60 90 210 60 90 60 60 270 90 60 90 90 330 60 90 30 180 30 30 1860 90 60 120 270 60 90 30 60 240 120 60 120 60 360 60 60 30 150 30 30 1920 6.5 30 60 240 60 60 60 60 30 270 90 90 60 90 330 60 90 30 60 240 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 60 180 30 30 2010 30 30 210 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 60 60 120 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 120 60 360 60 60 60 180 30 30 2070 30 30 210 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 90 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 60 60 2010 60 90 120 60 60 60 450 60 90 60 30 30 270 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 90 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 120 60 360 60 60 30 150 30 30 2100 60 90 120 60 30 60 420 60 90 60 30 30 270 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 120 330 60 90 30 60 240 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 30 30 2040 60 90 120 60 30 60 420 60 90 60 30 30 270 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 120 330 60 90 30 60 240 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 30 30 2040 60 90 120 60 30 60 420 60 90 30 30 180 60 30 90 30 30 240 420 60 90 30 30 30 270 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 90 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 120 60 360 60 60 30 150 30 30 2040 60* 90 120 60 30 60* 420 60 90 60 30 30 270 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 90 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 30 30 2070 Figures in bold = permanent provision; figures italicized = temporary provision * Alexandra and St Paul’s were converted from 3FE infant and junior schools into 2FE all-through primary schools 32 30 30 210 60 60 90 30 30 270 60 90 60 90 300 90 90 30 60 270 120 60 90 60 330 60 60 30 150 30 30 1980 Appendix 2: Year capacity, 2012–2020 Chessington 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 Coombe Boys’ 180 180 180 180 180 180 150 180 180 Coombe Girls’ 210 210 210 210 210 210 240 240 240 Richard Challoner 135 135 135 150 150 150 150 150 150 Southborough High 150 150 150 150 150 135 135 150 135 The Hollyfield 180 180 180 180 180 180 180 210 210 The Holy Cross 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 150 180 180 180 180 180 210* The Kingston Academy The Tiffin Girls’ 150 150 150 150 180 180 180 180 180 Tiffin (Boys’) 150 150 150 180 180 180 180 180 180 Tolworth Girls’ 210 210 210 240 240 240 240 240 240 Total 1665 1665 1665 1920 1950 1935 1935 2010 2025 Figures in bold = expansion, permanent or temporary; figures italicized = decrease 33 Appendix 3: SRP capacity School Age-range Designation Date of opening Number of places Surbiton Children's Centre Nursery Nursery ASD Already open 12 children in part time placements Alexandra Nursery to Year PD Already open 19: 2–3 in Nursery (parttime places), in Reception/ KS1 children in KS2; usually no more than per year group This is an Enhanced Specialist Teaching Arrangement (ESTA), whereby the children are supported full-time in mainstream lessons From September 2021, the KS2 places will form an SRP Castle Hill Primary Nursery to Year SLCN Open N–Y2 35 currently: 16 part-time places in Nursery, 15 places Adding KS2 over KS1, places KS2 a four-year period Further KS2 places being added as follows: 2019: in KS2 2020: 12 in KS2 2021: 16 in KS2 Grand Avenue Primary Nursery to Year ASD Already open 8, no more than per year group This is an Enhanced Specialist Teaching Arrangement (ESTA), whereby the children are supported full-time in mainstream lessons King Athelstan Primary Reception to Year SEMH September 2019 2019: 2020: (capacity) No more than per year group King’s Oak Primary Nursery to ASD Already open 31: in Nursery, in KS1, 34 Year 18 in KS2 Knollmead Primary Nursery to Year ASD Already open 16: in Nursery, in Reception/KS1, in KS2 Knollmead Primary Reception to Year HI Already open 12; usually no more than per year group Latchmere Reception to Year ASD Already open, but expanding 2018: 12 2019: 14 Usually no more than per year group Lime Tree Primary Reception to Year ASD Already open 21: in Reception/KS1; 12 in KS2 Tolworth Infant and Junior Nursery to Year MLD Already open 24: in Nursery, in Reception/KS1, 12 in KS2 Coombe Girls’ Year to Year 11 HI Already open – numbers building up over five years 2018: 2019: 12 2020: 18 2021: 24 2022: 30 (capacity) Maximum of per year group; girls-only The Hollyfield Year to Year 11 ASD September 2019 2019: (Years to 9) 2020: 16 (Years to 10) 2021: 20 (Years to 11, capacity) The Kingston Academy Year to Year 11 ASD Already open 15; usually no more than per year group Richard Challoner Year to Year 11 ASD Already open 20; boys-only This is an Enhanced Specialist Teaching Arrangement (ESTA), whereby the children are supported fulltime in mainstream lessons Richard Challoner Year to Year 11 SEMH Already open 15; boys-only; usually no more than per year group Richard Challoner Year 12 to Year 13 MLD Already open 16; mixed-sex 35 Tolworth Girls’ Year to Year 11 SEMH September 2019 2019: 2020: 10 Girls-only Key: ASD – Autistic Spectrum Disorders HI – Hearing Impairment MLD – Moderate Learning Difficulties PD – Physical Disability SEMH – Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs SLCN – Speech, Language and Communication Needs SpLD – Specific Learning Difficulties 36 Appendix 4: Growth in SEND school places, 2017–2028 School Surbiton Children's Centre Nursery Alexandra Castle Hill Primary Grand Avenue Primary King Athelstan Primary King's Oak Primary Knollmead Primary (ASD) Knollmead Primary (HI) Latchmere Lime Tree Primary Tolworth Infant and Junior Coombe Girls' The Hollyfield The Kingston Academy Richard Challoner (ASD) Richard Challoner (SEMH) Richard Challoner (MLD) Tolworth Girls' Bedelsford Special School Dysart Special School St Philip's Special School New ASD special school New SEMH special school (in Richmond) Totals 2017 19 23 2018 12 19 35 119 105 159 2019 12 19 39 31 16 12 14 21 24 12 15 20 15 16 119 112 175 2020 12 19 43 31 16 12 14 21 24 18 16 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 2021 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 24 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 31 16 12 21 24 31 16 12 12 21 24 15 20 15 16 15 20 15 16 119 96 143 592 645 696 738 752 2022 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 12 10 780 2023 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 24 20 802 2024 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 36 24 818 2025 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 48 27 833 2026 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 52 30 840 2027 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 56 30 844 2028 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 119 120 183 60 30 848 37 Appendix 5: Approved and proposed housing developments in the borough N.B Cambridge Road Estate pupil yield figures are net of current pupils 38 ... 31 16 12 14 21 24 18 16 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 20 21 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 24 20 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 31 16 12 21 24 31 16 12 12 21 24 15 20 15 16 15 20 15 16 11 9 96 14 3 5 92 645... 7 52 2 022 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 12 10 780 20 23 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 24 20 8 02 2 024 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 ... 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 36 24 818 20 25 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 48 27 833 20 26 12 19 47 31 16 12 14 21 24 30 20 15 20 15 16 10 11 9 12 0 18 3 52 30 840 20 27 12