Issue - items at meetings - St Luke's Infant and Junior Schools Merger

Report of the Director of Children’s Services (copy attached).

1.That the proposal to amalgamate St Luke’s Infant and Junior Schools be noted and endorsed.

2. That the publication of the required Statutory Notices to progress this proposal be agreed.

3. That the results from the statutory consultation process be referred to Cabinet Member Meeting on 2 March 2009 for decision. 

59.1    The Cabinet Member considered a report of the Director of Children’s Services concerning St Luke’s Infant and Junior School merger. The report sought the agreement to proceed to the next stage of the statutory process which was the publication of the required statutory notice (for copy see minute book).

59.2    The Head of Capital Strategy and Development Planning referred to paragraph 3.7 of the report and clarified that the statutory notices would be published by 12 January 2009 and not 2 December 2008, as indicated in the said paragraph.

59.3    She further rectified that, on paragraph 4 of Appendix 1 to the report, where it read “The proposal is linked to the prescribed alteration set out in Part 2, to create an all through primary school with an extended age range of 3 to 11 (see part 2 of this notice)” it should read “The proposal is linked to the prescribed alteration set out in Part 2, to create an all through primary school with an extended age range of 4 to 11 (see part 2 of this notice)”.

59.4    RESOLVED – That, having considered the information and the reasons set out in the report, the Cabinet Member accepted the following recommendations:

(1)      That the proposal to amalgamate St Luke’s Infant and Junior Schools be noted and endorsed.

(2)      That the publication of the required Statutory Notices to progress this proposal be agreed.

(3)      That the results from the statutory consultation process be referred to Cabinet Member Meeting on 2 March 2009 for decision.