About the School Place Planning team

The School Place Planning team works to ensure there are sufficient school places for all children in Warwickshire. As part of this remit the team works closely with School Admissions and deals with everything from schools taking extra pupils, changes to PANs, school expansions to the opening of new schools. In order to plan effectively the county is broken down into education areas (roughly based on district/borough boundaries) and then further into school planning areas.

Planning areas have been recently reviewed and agreed with the ESFA to allow the need for school places to be better reflected and monitored in all areas of the county. These have been drawn based around groupings of schools that serve the same communities and will often have a large amount of movement between the individual schools priority areas within the overall planning area.

Over the next 15 years Warwickshire is expecting large amounts of housing growth across the county and the School Place Planning team are looking to be as forward thinking as possible to ensure children moving in to Warwickshire can access quality education in their local area.  

At the start of June we ran an academy sponsors event to discuss areas of growth with Academy Trusts and highlight potential new schools that will require a sponsor. This event was well attended attracting both Academy trusts already operating in Warwickshire and those from further afield.

More information on School Place Planning is available in the Sufficiency Strategy available online at www.warwickshire.gov.uk/schoolorganisation