Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Corporate Director for Education and Young People's Services and the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform asking the Committee Members to consider and endorse or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform on the decision to allocate £1.3m from the Education and Young People’s Services Capital budget; authorise the Director of Infrastructure in consultation  with the General Counsel, to enter into any necessary contracts/ agreements on behalf of the County Council; and authorise the Director of Infrastructure to be the nominated Authority Representative within the relevant agreements and to enter into variations as envisaged under the contracts.

(Ms M White, Area Education Officer, East Kent attended the meeting for this item)

1.     Ms White introduced the report whichset out the results of the public consultation undertaken by Minster-in-Sheppey Primary (Academy) School and the Island Learning Trust on a proposal to increase the number of places available at the school and to permanently increase the PAN from 60 to 90 for Year R entry in September 2017. 

2.     Ms White responded to questions from members of the Committee as follows:

·         Clarifying the temporary changes to the operation of the children’s centre that normally operated from the site

3          RESOLVED to endorse the proposed decision of the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform on the decision to:

a)         Allocate £1.3m from the Education and Young People’s Services Capital budget;

b)         Authorise the Director of Infrastructure in consultation  with the General Counsel, to enter into any necessary contracts/ agreements on behalf of the County Council; and

c)         Authorise the Director of Infrastructure to be the nominated Authority Representative within the relevant agreements and to enter into variations as envisaged under the contracts. Variations to contract value to be no more than 10% above the capital funding agreed by the Cabinet Member without requiring a new Record of Decision.

This proposal was also subject to agreement from the Secretary of State for Education.