Agenda item

Minutes of Previous Meeting

Minutes:

It was noted that Carol Pearce had attended the last meeting but was missing from the list of those in attendance.

 

Krutika Pau has appointed Sara Kulay as the Senior Commissioner Education & SEND who will be dealing with the de-commissioning of the Cambridge Education contract.

 

It was noted that an element of the recruitment project funding is being held by Slough and Eton and it was agreed that this be released as soon as possible.

 

Robin Crofts updated the reference to the Education and Children’s Scrutiny Committee meeting: the meeting scheduled for March had been re-scheduled and the item on recruitment would need to be postponed to a later meeting.

 

It was noted that the raw data from Tribal’s Cost of Provision Review had been circulated.

 

It was noted that, following the January meeting, the de-delegation of the Trades Union budget had been agreed by email by relevant Schools Forum members.

 

It was noted that Cabinet had agreed the proposed Option 3 for the 5- 16 formula changes at its meeting on 18th January. Since that time, the DfE had raised an issue with regard to capping of the two growing free schools. The 5-16 Task Group had met and agreed a proposal put forward by the LA to deal with this. This had resulted in some change to budgets following the issue of indicative budgets.

 

It was noted that a breakdown of Wexham School’s budget figures had been provided as requested at the last meeting.

 

Krutika Pau reported that Anne Bunce had been appointed as permanent Virtual Head; Anne is currently in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead.

It was noted that the updated Scheme for Financing Schools was now on the SBC website.

 

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