Meeting documents
Venue: Knight Hall, Green park, Aston Clinton
Contact: Leone Dale
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Apologies for Absence / Changes in Membership Mr R Burman has resigned from the Schools Forum. Minutes: Apologies were received from:
Sarah Fahey |
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Declarations of Interest To disclose any Personal or Disclosable Pecuniary Interests Minutes: There were none. |
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Minutes of the Meeting held on 31 October 2017 PDF 248 KB To agree the minutes of the meeting held on 31 October 2017. Minutes: The Forum Members noted that Ms C Glasgow was present at the meeting of the Schools Forum held on 31 October 2017 and that Karen Collett attended in Gaynor Bulls absence. The minutes should reflect this.
ACTION: Miss L Dale
In answer to the action point which queried what was meant by ‘the school’, Ms S Callaghan advised Members that, as the majority of Education and Health Care Plans (EHCP) were done just prior to the child going to Secondary School.
Ms K Simmons made a suggestion for an amendment to the minutes as follows:
KS Welcomed the inclusion of reference to the strategic principles. She requested an additional question enabling respondents to comment on how far proposals would meet strategic aims. DH requested inclusion of ‘selection’ in list of issues within the LA that affect outcomes for students. JH agreed to consider this proposal with SC on her return.
Members agreed that the minutes of the meeting held on 31 October 2017 should be amended to included Ms Simmons suggested change.
ACTION: Miss L Dale
Mr D Hood would like it to be reflected in the minutes of the meeting held on 31 October 2017 that he had queried why non-selective schools were not acknowledged as a vulnerable group. Although the wording he was invited to provide for the consultation document was not used, it was referenced in the final version of the document.
ACTION: Miss L Dale
Members discussed the importance of recognising that non-selective schools were a vulnerable group. It was noted that non-selective and ‘not yet good’ schools would be supported by new projects and additional resources although this was not specifically quoted in the consultation. The Forum Members drew attention to the lack of context within the document in terms of the impact of the selective education system and were keen for context to be included in future.
Ms W Terry asked for page eight of the minutes to be amended from ‘… practitioners on minimum wage and 15 childcare hours no longer being paid for’ to ‘the additional 15 childcare hours’.
ACTION: Miss L Dale
The Forum noted a typographical error on the last bullet point of page eight, ‘level’ should be changed to ‘levels’.
ACTION: Miss L Dale
The Forum confirmed that the action points had been completed as agreed.
RESOLVED The forum AGREED the minutes of the meeting as an accurate record subject to the above changes. |
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Report and verbal update from Ms S Ayton, HR Policy & Reward Consultant. Minutes: Ms S Ayton, HR Policy and Reward Consultant, presented her report and gave a verbal update to the Schools Forum.
An in depth discussion took place regarding the possible implications on individual staff members and potential costs to schools.
RESOLVED The Schools Forum supported a pay increase of 1% to bring Range 1A to £7.90 |
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Update and report from Ms S Ayton. Minutes: Ms S Ayton gave an overview of the report and a verbal update in relation to holiday pay awarded on voluntary overtime. The following points were raised in discussion and in answer to Members questions:
RESOLVED The Schools Forum NOTED the increase of 7.69% holiday pay awarded on voluntary overtime hours. |
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Update from Director for Education Update from Ms S Callaghan, Service Director for Education. Minutes: Ms S Callaghan, Director for Education, presented her report and gave a verbal update to the Schools Forum. The following points were noted during discussion and in answer to Members questions:
ACTION: Ms S Callaghan
· Reviews had been completed on 284 placements. · In answer to queries regarding the development of the former Penn School site, Ms Callaghan advised that she would be meeting with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), who had purchased the site, on 5 December 2017. Ms Callaghan agreed to circulate an update to Members regarding placements and bids from providers looking to use the site following this meeting.
ACTION: Ms S Callaghan
· It was noted that the tribunals data (circulated to Members outside of the Schools Forum meeting) showed that there could be a possible 40% increase in legal costs for the Local Authority to defend its proposed provision and the cost of tribunals. · In order to try to reduce the numbers of cases going to tribunal, a pilot project would be set up to look at how to improve engagement with parents and schools earlier in the placement process for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). · There would be an away-day with the SEND team and HB law to look to at active engagement and building better relationships with parents and the SEND Improvement Plan would include work relating to tribunals. · The Chairman asked Ms Callaghan to feedback on tribunals as part of her update at the next Schools Forum meeting.
ACTION: Ms S Callaghan
· Mr Huskinson highlighted the breakdown of needs which was included as part of the agenda packs. This would exclude Early Years and the Private Voluntary and Independent (PVI) Sector.
· In answer to concerns about the lack of support for early intervention, Ms Callaghan advised members that there would be a piece of work completed running alongside the Inclusion Hub which would look at SEND reforms and Early Years. Ms Callaghan agreed to provide a link so ... view the full minutes text for item 5. |
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Consultation Outcome PDF 569 KB Update and reports from Mr J Huskinson. Additional documents:
Minutes: Mr J Huskinson provided his report and gave a verbal update on the Schools Funding Consultation. |
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Schools Funding Proposals PDF 240 KB Update and reports from Mr J Huskinson. Additional documents: Minutes: Mr J Huskinson provided his report and gave a verbal update on the Schools Funding Consultation. The following points were noted during discussion and in answer to members questions:
The Schools Forum was asked to vote collectively on the 4 recommendations detailed on page 72.
RESOLVED The Schools Forum UNANIMOUSLY AGREED the recommendations
Mr Huskinson thanked the Schools Forum. This would be taken forward in a decision paper which would reflect the decisions made by Forum Members. |
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High Needs Budget Proposals PDF 338 KB Update and reports from Ms S Callaghan, Mr J Huskinson and Ms A Wellings Additional documents:
Minutes: Mr Huskinson had given a brief overview of the report. The following points were raised during discussion and in answer to Members questions:
Members of the Schools Forum were asked to vote on the recommendations on page 82.
RESOLVED The Schools Forum AGREED the recommendations with 16 votes FOR and 1 ABSTENTION. |
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Exceptional Premises Factors Minutes: Mr Huskinson presented a proposal to submit a disapplication to the Secretary of State for exceptional premises factors.
RESOLVED The Members of the Schools Forum UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that Mr Huskinson would submit the disapplication to the Secretary of State before Christmas.
ACTION: Mr J Huskinson
The Chairman asked for a temporary volunteer for the start-up group to cover St Michael’s School.
RESOLVED Ms G Bull volunteered to cover St Michael’s School at the start-up group.
ACTION: Ms G Bull
The Chairman highlighted to Members that Schools Forum Elections would need to be held as some Memberships would expire at the end of December. It was agreed that this would be published in the Schools Bulletin to make the Head Teachers and Governors aware.
ACTION: Miss L Dale |
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Date of Next and Future Meetings Tuesday 12th December 2017, 1.30 pm, Mezzanine Room 1, County Hall, Aylesbury Minutes: RESOLVED The Members of the Schools Forum AGREED to CANCEL the Schools Forum and Schools Forum Funding Group meetings to be held on 4 December 2017, 12 December 2017 and 9January 2018.
The next meeting will therefore be held on 16 January 2018. |