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(i)            to note the content of the current version of the Early Learning and Childcare Delivery Plan including the indicative financial template contained at the exempt appendix to the report;

(ii)          to instruct the Head of Education and Inclusion to present a further updated Early Learning and Childcare Delivery Plan to the appropriate Committee once notification of capital and revenue grants were received from Scottish Government;

(iii)         to endorse the interim Memorandum of Understanding between Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Council in relation to the provision of Early Learning and Childcare for Cross Border Split Placements as detailed at section 3.8 of the report; and

(iv)         to delegate authority to the Head of Education and Inclusion to allocate the 17/18 early years expansion revenue and capital grants, and in utilising the grant to instruct the Head of Education and Inclusion to ensure that the many assumptions made in the financial template were rigorously tested to support more accurate financial planning.

With reference to article 9 of the minute of the meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee of 14 September 2017, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Education and Children’s Services which presented an updated Early Learning and Childcare Delivery Plan including the completed indicative financial template.

The report recommended –

that the Committee

(a)          note the content of the current version of the Early Learning and Childcare Delivery Plan including the indicative financial template contained at the exempt appendix to the report;

(b)          instruct the Head of Education and Inclusion to present a further updated Early Learning and Childcare Delivery Plan to the appropriate Committee once notification of capital and revenue grants were received from Scottish Government;

(c)          endorse the interim Memorandum of Understanding between Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Council in relation to the provision of Early Learning and Childcare for Cross Border Split Placements as detailed at section 3.8 of the report; and

(d)          delegate authority to the Head of Education and Inclusion to allocate the 17/18 early years expansion revenue and capital grants, and in utilising the grant to instruct the Head of Education and Inclusion to ensure that the many assumptions made in the financial template were rigorously tested to support more accurate financial planning.

The Committee resolved:

to approve the recommendations.