The Cabinet Member for Education and Health Reform is asked to agree to:
(i) Allocate funds from the Education and Young People’s Services Basic Need Budget in order that the proposal may go ahead to enlarge Temple Hill Primary & Nursery School in Dartford, from 3FE to 4FE for September 2016
(ii) Authorise the Director of Property and Infrastructure Support in consultation with the Director of Law and Governance to enter into any necessary contracts/ agreements on behalf of the County Council
(iii) Authorise the Director of Property and Infrastructure Support to be the nominated Authority Representative within the relevant agreements and to enter into variations as envisaged under the contracts.
Decision type: Key
Reason Key: Expenditure or savings of more than £1m;
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 25/01/2016
Consultees
The matter has not yet been considered by a Cabinet Committee but the North Kent proposals, of which this is one will be presented at three separate Cabinet Committees over the next 6- 8 months as the results of the public consultations are received.
In addition a public consultation will be undertaken. School consultations can be found at: www.kent.gov.uk/schoolconsultations
Cllr Tom Maddison, Dartford North division will be particularly affected by this decision and will be consulted in the course of the report to Cabinet Committee being written.
Financial implications: Lead Officer: Ian Watts, Area Education Officer - North Kent Tel number: 03000 414302 ian.watts@kent.gov.uk Relevant Director: Keith Abbott, Director of Education Planning and Access 03000 416677 keith.abbott@kent.gov.uk
Equalities implications: Financial Implications: will be outlined in the report to EYCC Equality Implications: Equality Impact Assessments can be found at: www.kent.gov.uk/schoolconsultations The matter is referred to in the Business Plan and Medium Term Capital Programme Supporting Documents: Increasing Opportunities, Improving Outcomes: Kent County Council’s Strategic Statement 2015-2020 http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/strategies-and-policies/corporate-policies/increasing-opportunities-improving-outcomes These proposals align to the KCC ambition “to ensure that Kent’s young people have access to the education, work and skills opportunities necessary to support Kent business to grow and be increasingly competitive in the national and international economy” as set out in ‘Increasing Opportunities, Improving Outcomes' and the Kent Commissioning Plan for Education Provision 2015-2019.