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EXECUTIVE – 10 JUNE 2003

ADDENDA

 

1. Apologies for Absence

Councillor John Farrow

3. Minutes

Minute 151/03 (Community Fire Safety Scrutiny Review) – delete the second full stop and apostrophe at the end of the first paragraph and "The" and the second comma on the first line of the second paragraph.

4. Petitions and Public Address

Item

Speaker

7. Raising Educational Achievement Best Value Review

Councillor Brian Hodgson

7. Raising Educational Achievement Best Value Review

The Learning & Culture Scrutiny Committee on 20 May 2003:

  • welcomed the outcomes of the review;

  • noted that progress has already been made towards forming a secondary school action group (Area 1 Task 4 in EX7), which is already meeting in ‘shadow’ form) following the Best Value review recommendations;
  • supported the inclusion of members in the group of head teachers and officers formed to provide strategic direction for secondary education in Oxfordshire;
  • recognised the importance of Specialist Schools in driving up achievement;
  • drew attention to the review findings under ‘Impact of the independent sector’ (page 14*) in relation to achievement levels.

12. Forward Plan and Future Business

The Executive is asked to note the following amendments to the Schedules at EX12:

Schedule 2

Retimings: 2003/020 (Budget Monitoring), 2003/048 (Provisional Outturn), 2003/049 (Treasury Management Activity), 2003/076 (Local Transport Plan), 2003/085 (Biodiversity in Oxfordshire), 2003/102 (Raising Our Performance), 2003/105 (Springfield and Wood Green Schools, Witney) – all to 8 July

Schedule 4

See amendments under Schedule 2 above

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