Issue - meetings

Report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and Learning, seeking approval for pre-statutory consultation on proposals relating to the future provision of primary school places throughout the City from September 2011, attached. 

On consideration of the report of the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and Learning and having received representations from Members of the Council, Cabinet agreed the following:

(i)  To add, in accordance with Financial Procedure Rules, a sum of £1 million to the Children’s Services and Learning Capital Programme, £690,000 for Primary Review Phase 2, an additional £125,000 for Primary Review Phase 1 increased places at Foundry Lane Primary and an additional £185,000 for Primary Review Phase 1 increased places at St Mary’s Church of England Primary school, funded from the Department for Education’s Emergency Basic Need Safety Valve grant.

(ii)  To approve, in accordance with Financial Procedural Rules, capital expenditure in the sum of £1 million including fees from the Children’s Services and Learning Capital Programme for the addition of Primary school places throughout the City;

(iii)  To authorise the Executive Director for Children’s Services and Learning to conduct pre-statutory consultation on a range of school organisation and admissions options for primary education in the city including (but not limited to) those options set out in Appendix 1.

(iv)  To delegate authority to the Executive Director for Children’s Services and Learning, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services and Learning, to determine the final form of the consultation including the addition or deletion of such options as may be considered appropriate and to bring forward a further report on proposals arising out of these options for statutory notice and/or consideration in accordance with Admissions legislation as appropriate, including details of the costs and funding requirements of these proposals.

(v)  To delegate authority to the Executive Director for Children’s Services and Learning, in consultation with the Solicitor to the Council and following consultation with the Executive Director of Resources, to do anything necessary to give effect to the recommendations in this report