Issue - meetings

(i)       to approve an amendment to the 2023/24 holiday pattern (set out at Option 1 in the report); and

(ii)       to instruct the Interim Chief Officer – Education to inform staff, parents and young people of the change to the holiday pattern

The Committee had before it a report by the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services which sought authority for the Interim Chief Officer – Education to make an amendment to the 2023/24 school holiday pattern to ensure all staff received the Good Friday public holiday and children received their statutory entitlement of education.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve an amendment to the 2023/24 holiday pattern (set out at Option 1 in the report); and

(b)      instruct the Interim Chief Officer – Education to inform staff, parents and young people of the change to the holiday pattern

The Committee resolved:-

to approve the recommendations.