The Committee resolved:-
(a) to request that officers provide a demonstration for Members on Power BI and school profiles;
(b) to note that the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services had undertaken to circulate research in relation to mentoring and experience of a working environment;
(c) to note the content of the service Self-Evaluation and Plan contained in Appendices A and B;
(d) to instruct the Interim Chief Education Officer to implement the proposed Aberdeen City National Improvement Framework Plan 23/24;
(e) instruct the Interim Chief Education Officer to maintain a review of the 23/24 Plan in light of any impacting national legislative or policy provisions through the education reform agendas and advise Committee of any required changes in due course;
(f) to note recommendations 2.4 and 2.5 of the report and the instruction to work with MCR Pathways to “address data issues”;
(g) to note section 3.14 of the report which suggests that, by agreeing to officer recommendations, MCR Pathways programme would no longer be funded centrally by Attainment Challenge Funding and instead paid for by participant schools PEF allocation, should they wish to continue with the programme;
(h) to instruct the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services to report back to Committee outlining which of the participating MCR Pathways schools are agreeable to support the programme via their respective PEF allocation;
(i) to note the suggestion that Attainment Challenge funding be diverted to in part accelerate phase 2 of the Abz Campus; and
(j) to instruct the Interim Director of Children’s and Family Services to report back to committee detailing specific deliverables on how Phase 2 of Abz Campus, the expansion of the edge of care pilot to St Machar Academy, and the expansion of Pathways co-ordinators will support a larger group of care experienced young people before any agreement by Committee to support this change in allocation of Attainment Challenge funding.