Issue - meetings

Any other items of business, which the Chairman agrees to consider as a matter of urgency.

There were no urgent items.

Any other items of business, which the Chairman agrees to consider as a matter of urgency.

Three-year budgets for Schools

Discussion emerged during the course of the meeting regarding the Council’s requirement for schools to submit a three-year budget each year. Some felt that this was unreasonable to expect following the new provisional DSG settlement figures from government, which covered only the period of 2011/12 rather than the usually three-year period.

Resolved:

Officers are requested to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of Schools Forum endorsing the submission of 1 year budgets only (in the absence of any legal barriers to doing so). An update/report is to be brought to a future meeting.

Primary Heads Forum

The PHF had been involved in the report on the development of traded services – Members of the forum were reminded this process was ongoing and some revised wording was suggested.