CHILDREN’S SERVICES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE 11 DECEMBER 2007
ADDENDA
Item
4. Petitions and Public Address
The Chairman has agreed the following requests to speak:
6. Oxford Academy – Draft Outline Business Case
Councillor John Sanders may wish to speak as a local member.
Ms Ruth Wilkinson, on behalf of the Rose Hill Tenants and Residents Association and as a Rose Hill resident who has been co-ordinating the Save Peers Sports Centre supporters’ campaign, wishes to talk about:
· the community's desire for publicly accessible swimming facilities to remain on site · the closure date of the joint use agreement · the financial data regarding the use of the current sports centre · pedestrian access to the Academy from the Champion Way gate · the size of the accommodation allocated to a community public library
Mr John Green, on behalf of the Rose Hill Tenants and Residents Association wishes to know how the sports centre fits into the plans for the Academy and what facilities will be open to the public.
Mr Vim Rodrigo
wishes to speak mainly about the closure of the Sports Centre which is linked
closely to the school becoming an Academy. He wants to ensure in his own words,
that the Scrutiny Committee is aware that many of the community facilities that
are now available will not be catered for in the new Academy and wishes to know
if the general public will be barred. A letter detailing his specific questions
is attached (download as .doc file).
Councillor Olive McIntosh Stedman wishes to speak as a local member, and express her appreciation of the Academy, which she has supported from the outset. She wishes to make the case for the continuation of sports centre and swimming pool facilities. She has asked that the article from the Oxford Mail be appended to the Addenda (download as .doc file).
· Follow up Report on the First Year of Delegating the Statementing Budget
The wording on the agenda relates to a different item. The decision was as follows:
On 7 November the Cabinet Member for Schools’ Improvement AGREED to:
(a) endorse the continued implementation of the delegation scheme;
(b) ask officers to update the hundred primary schools with the smallest whole school budgets every new funding cycle (the next being 2008 – 2011) ;
(c) ask officers to continue to monitor the level of SEN funding and the impact on pupil outcomes.
IT WAS AGREED that the Schools Forum would be asked whether they considered that a contingency fund was required for secondary schools. If so the funding and administration costs would be top sliced from their budgets.
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