Agenda item

Coral Miller introduced a report on the 2017-18 de-delegation requirements and sought approval from the Mainstream Primary and Secondary representatives to fund this from the maintained schools’ budget share.

The summary of estimated costs in paragraph 3.3 of the report was reviewed.  This included £5,329 for trade union staff supply cover costs and £207,312 for Behaviour Support (SEBDOS).  The Forum discussed the purpose of the trade union de-delegation amount and considered the information provided in section 5 of the report, although it concluded that the reasons to support this element of the de-delegation were not sufficiently clear.  It was further noted that there were separate arrangements for academies.

The Mainstream Primary Representatives (Maggie Waller, Carol Pearce and Navroop Mehat) voted to approve the Behavioural Support element, but did not approve the trade union de-delegation.

The Mainstream Secondary Representative (Angela Mellish) voted to approve the Behavioural Support element, but did not approve the trade union de-delegation.