Issue - meetings

To receive a report which updates Members of the Committee on the propsal to establish a Speicialist Resource Provision at The Judd School.

(Jared Nehra (Area Education Officer – West Kent) was in attendance for this item)

1.    Jared Nehra introduced the report which set out the proposal to establish a Specialist Resource Provision at The Judd School.

a)    In response to questions and comments, Jared Nehra said that currently there was no specialist resource provision in grammar schools for girls in the West Kent area. He said that there was ambition to establish a similar provision at a girls’ selective school, this would be reviewed as part of the Commissioning Plan update.

2.    RESOLVED that the decision proposed to be taken by the Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Education, to

(i)            establish a new Specialist Resource Provision for up to 20 students with an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) for autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) at The Judd School, Brook Street, Tonbridge TN9 2PN;

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

(iii)         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,

be endorsed.