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(i)       to note that officers had undertaken to provide information to Members outwith the meeting on any lessons learned from the parental engagement work undertaken at Harlaw Academy;

(ii)       to note that officers would feed back the comments made around the figures on page 73 of the report (that 43% to 68% was an increase of 58%, rather than 25%);

(iii)      to further note the comments around consistency of the percentage figures used in the report (for example, numbers of pupils within S4 against numbers of pupils presented) and that officers would take this on board for future reports to Committee;

(iv)      to instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to continue to support Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) settings and schools to implement continuous improvement in keeping with agreed Quality Improvement Frameworks; and

(v)      to otherwise note the report.

The Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director – Families and Communities which detailed the outcome of inspection reports published by His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education (HMIe) and The Care Inspectorate since the last meeting of the Committee.?? The report also contained an update on progress towards inspection recommendations at Northfield and Harlaw Academies.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      note the content of this report; ?and

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer - Education and Lifelong Learning to continue to support Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) settings and schools to implement continuous improvement in keeping with agreed Quality Improvement Frameworks.?

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to note that officers had undertaken to provide information to Members outwith the meeting on any lessons learned from the parental engagement work undertaken at Harlaw Academy;

(ii)       to note that officers would feed back the comments made around the figures on page 73 of the report (that 43% to 68% was an increase of 58%, rather than 25%);

(iii)      to further note the comments around consistency of the percentage figures used in the report (for example, numbers of pupils within S4 against numbers of pupils presented) and that officers would take this on board for future reports to Committee; and

(iv)      to approve the recommendations.