Planning education provision
The purpose of Planning Education Provision is to plan for and understand the future need for school places in Bradford which meet the needs of the children and young people within the District.
What is Planning Education Provision?
The Council has to ensure that:
- sufficient childcare is available which offers the early years free entitlement
- sufficient high-quality, maintained school provision is available to meet the needs of all Bradford District children aged 5-16
- sufficient high-quality, maintained school or college provision is available to meet the needs of all Bradford District young people aged 16-18
- at all ages, priority is given to meeting appropriately the needs of all children with special educational needs, learning difficulties and/or disabilities; and that
- all maintained nurseries, schools and colleges are able to function as high-quality, viable and financially efficient institutions.
How we plan for the future provision of education places?
When we plan education places we analyse a range of data and make forecasts of future demand for places. You can use this web page to go to pages that contain useful information about how we make forecasts and the data we use.
Data
You can find information on the numbers of pupils in all Bradford Schools on the Department for Education's 'Get Information About Schools' website. This includes data for independent schools, which are not included in the Council's place planning. It also includes historical data such as schools that are now closed.
How do I access education places?
Who provides it?
The Sufficiency Team, within the Intelligence and Sufficiency Service, is responsible for reviewing and planning for educational places across the district.
How do they help?
Bradford Council has a statutory duty to ensure there are sufficient education places in the District to meet the present and future demand. The School Organisation Plan (located at the foot of the page) provides information on:
- the current pattern of educational provision across the District
- forecasts of pupil numbers in future years
- information on government regulations, guidance and policies concerned with these issues
- Bradford Council policy and strategy with respect to school organisation in the District
There has been a minor amendment to the School Organisation Plan 2023 in February 2024.
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Strategic Plan 2023.pdf | 1 Mb |
Strategic Plan 2023 - Sufficiency of Specialist Places for Children and Young People in Bradford
This report sets out the analysis process that we undertake to enable the Local Authority to plan and ensure the sufficiency of specialist places across the district and provides an overview of the following information:
- the current specialist provision available
- the number of children and young people with an EHCP
- the most prevalent primary needs of the children and young people with an EHCP
- the projected growth of children and young people with an EHCP based on local and national data
- whether or not there are sufficient specialist places for particular primary needs within each constituency, to meet current and projected demands
- the type of provision that is projected to be required, for example Resourced Provisions, Special Schools or Enhanced Early Years Specialist Provision
This report highlights the projected scale of growth and the number of specialist places required to meet projected increase in demand. In order to assess and ensure that there are sufficient specialist places for statutory school aged children, this report primarily looks at school aged children and young people with an EHCP.