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(i)       to note that officers would circulate the weblink to the revised school forecast data to Members once it was available;

(ii)       to approve the Community Campus model principles for future education and service provision within the city;

(iii)      to nevertheless recognise that the campus model may not be either suitable or possible in some circumstances;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer Corporate Landlord to ensure that the principles of the Community Campus model are reflected within the forthcoming School Estate Plan to be presented to Committee in June 2022;

(v)      to note the revised school capacity figures for secondary schools as detailed in Appendix which will be used to inform planning for future implementation of the Community Campus model within the School Estate Plan;

(vi)      to agree that officers should as part of the School Estate Plan indicate preference for Aberdeen City Council’s first Community Campus taking into consideration the vision and strategic objectives highlighted at 3.12 of the report noting that those objectives are key to increasing attainment in schools within our regeneration areas; and

(vii)     to instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord and Chief Officer -  Education to jointly advise the Parent Councils regarding the updated school capacities.

The Committee had before it a report by the Director of Resources which provided an update on the work to develop a Community Campus model for future school and community service provision within the city, and also demonstrated how the model could be applied to one of the Council’s new masterplanned developments at Countesswells.

The report recommended:-

that Committee –

(a)      approve the Community Campus model principles for future education and service provision within the city;

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to ensure that the principles of the Community Campus model were reflected within the forthcoming School Estate Plan to be presented to Committee in June 2022; and

(c)      note the revised school capacity figures for secondary schools as detailed in Appendix 3 to the report, which would be used to inform planning for future implementation of the Community Campus model.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note that officers would circulate the weblink to the revised school forecast data to Members once it was available;

(ii)       to approve the Community Campus model principles for future education and service provision within the city;

(iii)      to nevertheless recognise that the campus model may not be either suitable or possible in some circumstances;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer Corporate Landlord to ensure that the principles of the Community Campus model were reflected within the forthcoming School Estate Plan to be presented to Committee in June 2022;

(v)      to note the revised school capacity figures for secondary schools as detailed in Appendix 3 which would be used to inform planning for future implementation of the Community Campus model within the School Estate Plan;

(vi)      to agree that officers should as part of the School Estate Plan indicate preference for Aberdeen City Council’s first Community Campus taking into consideration the vision and strategic objectives highlighted at 3.12 of the report noting that those objectives were key to increasing attainment in schools within regeneration areas; and

(vii)     to instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord and Chief Officer -  Education to jointly advise the Parent Councils regarding the updated school capacities.