Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform and theCorporate Director for Educationand Young People’sServices which asks the Committee to consider and endorse, or make recommendations to the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform on the decision to allocate £7.1m from the Education and Young People’s Services Capital Budget, to fund any necessary additional works or variations to accommodation, 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.

(Ian Watts, Area Education Officer, North Kent, attended the meeting for this item)

Mr Watts introduced this report which informed the Cabinet Committee of the proposal to change the age range of Saint George’s Church of England School to create an all-through school for pupils aged 4 to 19 from September 2018, and requested members to recommend that the Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform agree to release sufficient funding to put the necessary infrastructure in place.

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

a.         Allocate £7.1m from the Education and Young People’s Services Capital Budget, to fund any necessary additional works or variations to accommodation.

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.

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.