Issue - meetings

(i)       to note the update on education reform; and

(ii)       to instruct the Chief Education Officer to update Committee on further developments within one calendar year or earlier if on-going education reform triggers a change in the current operating model.

The Committee had before it a report by the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services which provided an update in relation to Education Reform, further to an earlier report to Committee which had provided an overview of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) report on Scottish education.  The OECD report had been the catalyst for work designed to reform Scottish education and Appendix A to the report set out the OECD recommendations against the Scottish Government commitment,  and progress to date.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the update on education reform; and

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer - Education to update Committee on further developments within one calendar year or earlier if ongoing education reform triggered a change in the current operating model.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.