Issue - meetings

Consideration has been given to the position of school placement sufficiency and to the proposed allocations of Department for Education (DfE) Basic Need funding to individual schools in order to increase capacity within the schools.

RESOLVED -

(i)

That the funding allocations to the secondary schools as set out below be approved.

School

Basic Needs Allocation £m

Increase in school places per year group

Thorp Academy

4.00

30 (NB: figure amended at the meeting)

St Thomas More and Cardinal Hume Catholic School

5.00

70

Kingsmeadow Community School

1.00

10

(ii)

That the funding to be provided to the schools on a grant funding agreement basis.

The above decisions have been made for the following reasons:

(A)

To ensure best value for money for the Council.

(B)

To enable the Council to meet its statutory requirement to provide sufficient school places.

(Councillor Haley declared a personal and non-pecuniary interest in the above matter because he is a governor of Kingsmeadow Community School).