The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 requires Devon County Council as the Local Education Authority (LEA) to produce a School Organisation Plan.

The Plan :

• Deals with how school places are provided in Devon and how places will be provided to meet future demand.
• Covers a five year period from the start of the academic year beginning September 2001. It is a rolling Plan that is reviewed and updated annually to cover the following 5 years.
• Identifies the areas where places will be needed and what type of places will be needed, but does not identify individual schools.
• Gives details of provision for children with Special Educational Needs and for Post 16 students.
• Identifies how all the promoters and providers of education in Devon which are the LEA, the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church and the Further Education Funding Council (Learning Skills Council from April 2001) will be involved.

The County Council has set up a School Organisation Committee to consider the Draft School Organisation Plan along with any comments that are received during consultation. Devon's School Organisation Committee is formed from members drawn from the County Council, the Church of England Diocesan Board of Education, the Roman Catholic Schools Commission, the Learning and Skills Council and serving school governors.

Each year, the County Council prepares and publishes a Draft Plan and then consults with others about the content. The consultation on this plan took place between April and June 2001. The School Organisation Committee met in July to consider the response to consultation and agreed the content of the Plan. This Plan was published on 31 August 2001.

If you have any comments or queries on the School Organisation Plan, please edmail@devon.gov.uk.

Contents

• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations (12KB - pdf help)
• Introduction (16KB - pdf help)

• A Demographic Information Relevant to the Supply of School Places (35KB - pdf help)
• 1 Total Population Forecast for Districts in Devon
• 2 Pupil Numbers
• 3 School Data (See Appendix 1)
• 4 Sixth Form Information
• 5 Nursery Information
• 6 Special Educational Needs Arrangements
• 7 Fluctuations in Pupil Numbers
• 8 Pupils out of School
• 9 Changes to School Organisation
• B Statement of Policies or Principles relevant to the Provision of School Places (35KB - pdf help)
• 10 Performance
• 11 Diversity of Provision
• 12 Post 16 Provision
• 13 Accessibility of Provision
• 14 School Provision and Size
• 15 Class Teaching Group Size
• 16 Accessibility to Schools
• 17 Parental Preference
• 18 Schools Provision and the Wider Community
• 19 Special Educational Needs
• 20 Improved Standards of Achievement
• C Conclusions drawn from the demographic information and policy principles about the need to add or remove places in a particular district or part of the Local Education Authority area (23KB - pdf help)
• 21 Population Trends
• 22 Pupil Numbers - Primary and Secondary
• 23 Availability of Resources

• Details of other D.C.C. Education, Arts and Libraries Directorate Plans (12KB - pdf help)

• Appendix 1 - School Data - Table 3.1
• Appendix 2 - Networks - Individual Analysis of Schools
• Appendix 3 - School Organisation Plan - Responsibility for Action
• Appendix 4 - Map of Devon - School Organisation Plan Areas (333KB - pdf help)