School sufficiency
We have a statutory duty to ensure sufficient school places and fair, appropriate access to education. It is our role to plan, commission and organise school places in a way that raises standards, manages supply and demand and creates a diverse infrastructure.
The One Strategic Plan helps schools, parents/carers, colleagues, local partners and stakeholders understand how we set out school place planning: the ways in which places will be delivered; the information that will be used, and the way work is conducted with people to deliver high quality, accessible school places for all learners.
Under Section 14 of the Education Act 1996, Coventry City Council has a statutory duty to ensure sufficient school places and fair, appropriate access to education. It is the Council’s role to plan, commission and organise school places in a way that raises standards, manages supply and demand and creates a diverse infrastructure. From September 2019, additional capacity has been added in our secondary schools to mitigate these larger cohorts; this is being provided through a model of both permanent and temporary expansions to ensure sufficiency of places, viability for schools, and cost-efficiency.