Issue - meetings

1.    That the commencement of informal consultation on the proposed merger of Whitgreave Infant School with Whitgreave Junior School be approved.

2.    That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Education, in consultation with the Assistant Director - School Standards, to consider the outcome of informal consultation on the proposed merger of Whitgreave Infant School with Whitgreave Junior School and to determine whether or not to proceed to formal consultation.

Councillor Claire Darke presented the report on the Reorganisation of Educational Provision relating to Whitgreave Infant and Whitgreave Junior Schools. The report requested the commencement of a period of informal consultation on the proposal to merge the infant and junior schools. Cabinet was informed that the governing bodies of both schools were in support of the proposal.

Resolved:

1.    That the commencement of informal consultation on the proposed merger of Whitgreave Infant School with Whitgreave Junior School be approved.

2.    That authority be delegated to the Cabinet Member for Education, in consultation with the Assistant Director - School Standards, to consider the outcome of informal consultation on the proposed merger of Whitgreave Infant School with Whitgreave Junior School and to determine whether or not to proceed to formal consultation.

At this point, Councillor Sandra Samuels OBE made the Chair aware that she had a pecuniary interest in item 6 (Business Rates Discretionary Relief) as she was the owner of a business in the City.