Issue - meetings

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note that the Interim Director Children’s and Family Services would liaise with the Council’s communications team to ensure that the positive work being done at Northfield Academy was communicated to external media sources;

(ii)       to endorse the proposed membership of the Advisory Group as outlined in the report; and

(iii)      to instruct the Interim Director Children’s and Family Services to routinely report the outputs of each meeting of the Advisory Group to the next scheduled meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee.

With reference to article 2 of the minute of its special meeting of 30 March 2023, the Committee had before it a report by the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services which provided an update on the progress made in establishing the Northfield Advisory Group, as instructed with the approval of the governance framework for Northfield Academy at the special meeting of the Committee.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note that the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services would liaise with the Council’s communications team to ensure that the positive work being done at Northfield Academy was communicated to external media sources;

(b)      endorse the proposed membership of the Advisory Group as outlined in the report; and

(c)      instruct the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services to routinely report the outputs of each meeting of the Advisory Group to the next scheduled meeting of the Education and Children’s Services Committee.

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.