I think this is going to be an interesting year for consultations, with changes to catchment areas and some schools chasing the holy grail of additional PP funding.
I will post links to the consultations here as they appear on the schools' websites, together with any immediate observations. Please feel free to point out anything I've missed!
Once all the schools have declared, I will try to summarise the new policies for ease of reference.
First to declare seems to be
Aylesbury GS:
https://www.ags.bucks.sch.uk/wp-content ... tation.pdf (Consultation from Friday 19 October 2018 until Friday 30 November 2018)
Their oversubscription criteria don't appear to have changed, but there is a big change to the school's catchment area. If approved, it will extend some way towards Wycombe, in the hope of addressing the pressure on places that we saw last year in the south-east of the county.
Current catchment area here:
https://www.ags.bucks.sch.uk/wp-content ... a-2018.pdf Proposed catchment area here:
https://www.ags.bucks.sch.uk/wp-content ... l-2020.pdfThis will potentially have a huge effect on applicants from out-of-county to the north, in Beds and MK. The allocation distance on 1st March 2020 is likely to reduce significantly as a result.