Decision details
School Term and Holiday Dates 2016-17 Academic Year
Decision Maker: Cabinet Member - Children services
Decision status: Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To agree a set of recommended School Term and Holiday Dates for the2016-17 Academic Year.
Decision:
The Cabinet Member agrees that in order to maximise consistency of dates for the benefit of children and their parents, to recommend to all schools and academies the Council’s preferred calendar of School Term and Holiday dates for the academic year 2016-17 based on a 195 day calendar, as set out in Appendix 1 of the covering report
Reasons for the decision:
The dates recommended in this report will be popular with schools and similar to those adopted by neighbouring authorities.
Alternative options considered:
To recommend a set of dates based on a 190 day model.
However this will not be popular with schools and will not achieve consistency with neighbouring authorities.
If the dates recommended are unpopular the likelihood is schools will determine their own dates. The 190 day model has been unpopular with a majority of schools and schools will probably determine a 195 day model. If Secondary Schools adopt a 195 day model primary schools in the same cluster will probably follow suit.
Publication date: 03/07/2015
Date of decision: 03/07/2015
Effective from: 11/07/2015
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