Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of the Children & Young People’s Service)  To provide an update on the plans for the Building Schools for the Future programme.

The Committee received a report that provided an summary of Haringey’s Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, including its aims and objectives.

In terms of the Governance arrangements supporting the BSF Programme, the Committee was advised that the BSF Programme Board met on a fortnightly basis and that this was constituted of senior officers from both the Council and the BSF team. In addition, the BSF Team also worked closely with the Procurement Committee and Schools Transformation Board to ensure that the Programme was progressed through the Council’s decision making processes correctly.

In response to a query the Committee was advised that the new Heartlands High School would be completed in September 2010.

There was a general consensus that the progress of the BSF Programme had not been communicated to Ward Members effectively and that further ways of engaging Ward Members should be considered. It was agreed that this issue should be discussed further with the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People.

In response to a query as to whether the BSF Programme took into consideration the aims of the Council’s Greenest Borough Strategy, it was confirmed that it did. It was agreed that a further report should be brought to the Committee providing more detail in relation to this.

RESOLVED:

1. That the report be noted.

2. That a report should be received a future meeting setting out how the BSF Programme reflected the aims and objectives of the Greenest Borough Strategy.