Decision details

The Education Scrutiny Committee working group completed an investigation into school exclusions in March 2018.

The group have made a series of recommendations and have requested that the Cabinet consider and respond to their recommendations.

Recommendations agreed subject to the following amendments set out in bold

RESOLVED: to:

(a)          consider the recommendations of the Education Scrutiny Committee Exclusions working group for the Council;

(b) agree which recommendations the Cabinet will accept; and

(b)         ask the Director for Children’s Services, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Public Health and Education, to prepare a response for the next meeting of the Education Scrutiny Committee.

(c)          Instruct that the progress report referred to at paragraph 12 include potential costings of the recommendations and be considered by Cabinet during the autumn.