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Agenda item

Education and Lifelong Learning Delivery Plan 2017-19

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

 

(b)        Nick Batchelar, Director of Education and Lifelong learning and officers will present the report and be available answer any questions Members may have;

 

(c)        Questions from Committee members;

 

(d)        The way forward for this item will be considered at the end of the meeting

Minutes:

The Chairperson welcomed Councillor Sarah Merry (Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member Education, Employment and Skills) and Nick Batchelar (Director of Education and Lifelong Learning) to the meeting.

 

The Chairperson invited the Cabinet Member to make a statement in which she confirmed that education was a priority for the last administration and it is also a priority in the new Capital Ambition 5 year plan.

 

Members were invited to comment, raise questions or seek clarification on the information received.  Those discussions were summarised as follows:

 

  • Members queried the nature of the provision of schools within the new developments referred to in the LDP and were advised that the Band A proposals for 2019-24 refer to 2 major developments and the Schools Organisational Planning Team, together with the Planning Department are giving consideration to how many schools will be required, and that medium they will be.

 

  • Members expressed concern regarding the sufficiency of school places and queried whether thought it being given to redrawing the current catchment areas.  The Director advised that there has to be consultation and publication of the School Admission Arrangements each year.  Professor Chris Taylor, Cardiff University is currently undertaken an assessment of whether the current procedure is fit for purpose, catchment areas will be one of those arrangements that will be considered.  He is due to report back at the end of September and a report will there after go to Cabinet in October or November.

 

  • Members referred to previous Estyn reports and in particular as to whether there is an adequate teaching pool and queried what is being done to ensure that there is an adequate pool.  Officers indicated that there had been changes in the education of teachers in Wales, the existing arrangements having been criticised which resulted in the changes being made.

 

AGREED – That the Chairperson writes to the Cabinet Member on behalf of the Committee expressing their comments and observations.

 

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