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HCC has voted for and approved an increase from 3 to 4 school preferences for all school application levels effective for all applications submitted from September 2012 for September 2013 entry.
The Action Group has been established by Maple Cross, Mill End, Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Sarratt and Croxley Green parents concerned at the appalling situation facing them as they seek to transfer their children from primary into secondary school. The closure and transfer to independent status of secondary schools in the area has resulted in parents having to send their children to the other side of Watford to the worst three performing council-run schools in the county. This problem has been exacerbated by:
1) Local, independent schools setting admissions criteria that end up disadvantaging Maple Cross and Mill End children.
2) Bordering councils offering their residents more application choices than that offered by Hertfordshire County Council so that they can compete with Hertfordshire children for Hertfordshire school places without Hertfordshire children being able to compete on an equal footing.
We are seeking to meet and organise ways in which we can place pressure on the different parties involved in providing or auditing the provision of fair and equal local school services across all of Hertfordshire.
If you wish to get involved by signing any petitions; writing letters; attending action group, council or other meetings; helping with research; or in any other way;
please look at the next section below or contact us on
wd3school@yahoo.co.uk
Our campaign is seeking 2 goals:
1) New LEA secondary schools serving the increased local South West Hertfordshire children population. Hertfordshire County Council is forecasting that children in Reception in 2011/2012 (age 5) face a shortage of 320 places when they transfer to secondary school in 2018.
2) An increase in the number of school preferences (from a paltry 3) that secondary applicants can list to match the application process offered to applicants by neighbouring LEAs.
TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE OBJECTIVES, click here.
