Agenda item

It was moved by Councillor Smith,

Seconded by Councillor Wright,

“This Council resolves:

Following Ofsted's grading of SBC's Children's Centres as "Inadequate" in all three categories - governance, monitoring and service delivery

a)  that the Commissioner for Education and Children resign, due to the services areas she oversees being repeatedly and comprehensively judged as "inadequate" by Ofsted and

b)  that the Education and Children's Services Scrutiny Panel examine how the £8,365,472 early intervention grant from Government was spent on our 13,000 child clients (about £650 per child) in the last financial year, as well as to examine what provisions there are in the Cambridge Education (signed last year) for target setting and performance monitoring, and require a six-monthly scrutiny review of this data beginning with a review of the Action Plan to recover the Children's Centre service.”

The motion was put to the vote and lost by 8 votes to 30 votes against with 1 abstention.

Resolved – That the motion be rejected.