Consultations and proposals about changes to schools in Cumberland.
We plan school places to make sure there are enough suitable places for children and young people across Cumberland.
Our work includes:
We propose to add resourced provision for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) at:
We may need to build new schools or make changes to existing schools to make sure there are enough suitable school places.
Changes can include:
Read the school organisation guidance on GOV.UK for more information about the statutory process. Current Department for Education guidance covers opening, closing and making significant changes to schools.
Cumberland Council and the Governing Body of Millom School are seeking views on a proposal to change the school's age range from 11 to 18 years to 11 to 16 years.
If the proposal progresses to statutory consultation, it could result in the removal of sixth form provision at Millom School.
Any changes would not affect the students currently in the sixth form.
This is an informal consultation. No final decision has been made.
Consultation by the county council on the proposed change of age range to St Bees Village Primary School from 4 to 11 years to a new range of 2 to 11 years.
The consultation was about the future of St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Mountain View, Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 0DG.
The school's governing body, the Diocese of Lancaster and Cumbria County Council had been working very hard to keep the school thriving and successful, but in recent times the number of pupils at the school had fallen to an historically low level, which in turn led to budget and staffing difficulties and had an effect on the offering that the school was able to make.
Proposed change of age range at Wigton School from 2 to 7 years to a new range of 3 to 7 years.
The Governing Body of Scotby CoE School have consulted on reducing the Published Admission Number (PAN) from 38 to 30 from September 2021. All responses from the consultation have been considered and the Governing Body have made the decision to alter the PAN.
Since the closure of the Armathwaite Nursery Group the governors had been providing a 'governor-led' childcare provision. The governors sought to formalise the establishment of a maintained nursery by changing the age range of the school from 4 to 11 to 3 to 11. The consultation provided an opportunity for those with an interest to share their views.
The Governing Body recently held a consultation on the possible expansion of Mayfield School. The details of that consultation and a summary of responses are shown below. The final decision on whether or not to enlarge Mayfield School was made by the Cabinet of Cumbria County Council within two months of the representation period following the publication of the statutory notices also shown below. This happened in 2020.
This consultation was about the potential expansion of Thursby Primary School by providing an additional classroom.
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