{"id":5740,"date":"2022-01-06T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/?post_type=consultation&#038;p=5740"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T09:33:45","slug":"ilfracombe-infant-and-nursery-school-proposal-to-lower-the-age-range","status":"publish","type":"consultation","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/consultations\/ilfracombe-infant-and-nursery-school-proposal-to-lower-the-age-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School: Proposal to lower the age range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> April 2022<\/p>\n<p>Following completion of the statutory process and consultation, Devon County Council&#8217;s Cabinet have approved the proposal to lower the age range of Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School from 3-7 to 2-7 with effect from 25 April 2022.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School is a Community School with a registered age range of 3-7 years of age. The school has a nursery, located on the school site in a separate building, with generous outdoor space. The Nursery class provides places for 3- and 4-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Devon County Council is now consulting on a proposal to lower the age range of the school from 3-7 to 2-7 years of age from April 2022. A change to the age range of a Community School requires a statutory process to be followed which includes a consultation and formal representation period.<\/p>\n<p>As a temporary measure, due to the demand for places for 2-year-olds in the area, an extended service provision has been set up so that the school can admit 2-year-olds to the Nursery class before the age range of the school is formally lowered.<\/p>\n<p>Parents will still need to make a separate application to Devon County Council for a place in the Reception class.<br \/>\nThere will be no effect to the school\u2019s published admission number for school aged children and the proposal will not put pressure on classroom space as the 2-year-olds will be accommodated within the existing nursery provision. No capital funding is required for this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>If the decision is made to proceed further with the proposals, then the timetable for the remainder of the process (assuming agreement to each stage) is likely to be:<br \/>\nBrief Notice issued and 4-week period for responses \u2013 March 2022<br \/>\nDevon County Council makes decision \u2013 April 2022<br \/>\nImplementation \u2013 25 April 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE April 2022 Following completion of the statutory process and consultation, Devon County Council&#8217;s Cabinet have approved the proposal to lower the age range of Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School from 3-7 to 2-7 with effect from 25 April 2022. &nbsp; Ilfracombe Infant and Nursery School is a Community School with a registered age range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"consultation_tags":[37,41],"district":[25],"class_list":["post-5740","consultation","type-consultation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","consultation_tags-education-and-schools","consultation_tags-planning-and-development","district-north-devon"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultations\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultations"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/consultation"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultations\/5740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultations\/5740\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"consultation_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/consultation_tags?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/haveyoursay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}