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Schools Forum - Thursday 5 October 2017 1.30 pm

Venue: Kennet Room - County Hall, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, BA14 8JN. View directions

Items
No. Item

PART I

Items to be considered whilst the meeting is open to the public

1.

Apologies and Changes of Membership

To receive any apologies for absence.

2.

Minutes of the previous Meeting

To approve and sign as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on Thursday 22June 2017 (copy attached)

3.

Declaration of Interests

To receive any declarations of disclosable interests or dispensations granted by the Standards Committee.

4.

Chairman's Announcements

5.

Children and Young People's Trust Board Update

To receive a verbal update from Susan Tanner- Head of Commissioning and Joint Planning.

6.

Budget Monitoring

To receive budget monitoring information for the financial year 2016-17.

Supporting documents:

7.

Reports from Working Groups

To receive minutes, reports and/or verbal updates from the following working groups:

 

1.      Early Years Reference Group Joint Meeting of School Funding (verbal update- J Proctor)

2.      Working Group and SEN Working Group (report and minutes attached- Liz Williams)

Supporting documents:

8.

Virtual School - Funding Overview and Proposed Pupil Premium Arrangements

To receive an overview report from Christ Whitfield- Virtual School Head Teacher, of Pupil Premium and Central Schools Block DSG expenditure for Children and Young People from Virtual School.

Supporting documents:

9.

Schools Revenue Balances 2016-17

To receive an update report from Grant Davis- Schools Strategic Financial Support Manager, to present the position of revenue balances of Wiltshire maintained schools, as at 31st March 2017, and identify those that are in deficit.

Supporting documents:

10.

TU Facilities Time Budgets 2018-19

To receive a report from Grant Davis- Schools Strategic Financial Support Manager, to provide details of the current Trade Union Facilities Time Agreement for Wiltshire Schools and set out a proposal for the funding of time for the professional associations in representing their members.

Supporting documents:

11.

National Funding Formula for Schools & High Needs

To receive reports from Liz Williams- Head of Finance and Grant Davis- Schools Strategic Financial Support Manager.

 

Supporting documents:

11a

Overview of National Funding Formula for Schools & High Needs

Supporting documents:

11b

Schools Block

Supporting documents:

11c

High Needs Block

Supporting documents:

11d

Central Schools Block

Supporting documents:

12.

Projecting Demand for Special School Places

To receive an update report from Susan Tanner- Head of Commissioning and Joint Planning to update Schools Forum on the work being undertaken to understand future demand for special school places.

Supporting documents:

13.

Confirmation of dates for future meetings

To confirm the dates of future meetings, as follows:

 

·        Thursday 7 December 2017

·        Thursday 22 March 2018

 

 

 

14.

Urgent Items

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

PART II

Item(s) during consideration of which it is recommended that the public should be excluded because of the likelihood that exempt information would be disclosed