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The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to progress with a time limited (12 months) Early Intervention Service Test of Change at Riverbank School for younger primary school pupils, operational August 2025;

(ii)            to instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to report back on progress in 2 committee cycles from commencement of service;  

(iii)          to instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to report a full evaluation of the Test of Change within 4 committee cycles from commencement of service;

(iv)          to note that children attending the Early Intervention Service will have no/limited participation in their home school preventing them effectively accessing their education at that school; and

(v)           to instruct the Chief Officer – Education and Lifelong Learning to ensure that transport would be provided if found to be required in order for families to benefit from the intervention.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Education and Lifelong Learning, which presented a proposed operating model for a cost neutral time limited Early Intervention service, to be based at Riverbank School for up to 10 primary children and to share a summary of progress against the recommendations from ‘Support for Learning: All our Children and Their Potential’ (Angela Morgan, 2020) known as the Morgan Review.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)           instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to progress with a time limited (12 months) Early Intervention Service Test of Change at Riverbank School for younger primary school pupils, operational August 2025;

(b)           instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to report back on progress in 2 committee cycles from commencement of service; and

(c)           to instruct the Chief Officer Education & Lifelong Learning to report a full evaluation of the Test of Change within 4 committee cycles from commencement of service’.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)             to approve the recommendations;

(ii)            to note that children attending the Early Intervention Service would have no/limited participation in their home school preventing them effectively accessing their education at that school; and

(iii)          to instruct the Chief Officer – Education and Lifelong Learning to ensure that transport would be provided if found to be required in order for families to benefit from the intervention.