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The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to note the consultation approach and subsequent feedback on the summer holiday pattern 2020-21 to 2024-25;

(ii)        to agree to maintain the current holiday pattern for the next five years with no change to the timing of the summer school holiday;

(iii)       to instruct the Chief Operating Officer to publish details of the holiday pattern up to 2025 as detailed in Appendix A; and

(iv)       to agree that officers would commence the consultation on the next school holiday dates in three years’ time.     

With reference to article 6 of the minute of its meeting of 16 May 2019, the Committee had before it a report by the Chief Education Officer which presented the outcome of the further consultation exercise which had been undertaken to ascertain if the summer holiday period should be brought forward by a week in future years.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

(a)       note the consultation approach and subsequent feedback on the summer holiday pattern 2020-21 to 2024-25;

(b)       agree to maintain the current holiday pattern for the next five years with no change to the timing of the summer school holiday; and

(c)        instruct the Chief Operating Officer to publish details of the holiday pattern up to 2025 as detailed in Appendix A.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)         to approve the recommendations; and

(ii)        to agree that officers would commence the consultation on the next school holiday dates in three years’ time.