Agenda item

·         Councillor Sarah Merry (Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Employment and Skills) will be in attendance and may wish to make a statement;

·         Nick Batchelar (Director of Education and Lifelong Learning) and Officers will briefly present the report and answer Members’ questions;

·         Questions from Committee Members;

·         The Way Forward for this item will be considered at the end of the meeting

The Chairperson welcomed Councillor Sarah Merry (Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Education, Employment and Skills) and Nick Batchelar (Direction of Education and Lifelong Learning) to the meeting to present the report which the Committee indicated had been read and considered.  Further Members were aware that the annual performance report for Cardiff Schools will be received by the Committee in January and that the full results will be available at that time and as a result indicated that they would

comment, seek clarification or raise questions when the full report was available.   

The Director wished to update Members that Eastern High School was not out of special measures and was demonstrating strong practise; Whitchurch and Radyr High Schools were out of monitoring and the results in relation to Trelai primary were awaited, although it is known that there have been significant improvement.