Issue - meetings

(Report of the Director of Children’s Services. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Children). The report details schools wishing to convert academy status and seeks approval to delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services to facilitate this process.

Cabinet considered a report, introduced by the Cabinet Member for Children, which detailed the schools wishing to convert academy status. The report sought approval to delegate authority to the Director of Children’s Services to facilitate this process.

In response to a query it was confirmed that land owned by the Council would be transferred to schools converting to Academy status as part of the conversion process. It was also confirmed that Academy schools would have their own admissions criteria in place; however, the admissions process would continue to be administered by the Local Authority.

RESOLVED:

1. That the decision of the educational establishments to convert to Academy status be noted.

2. That in order to facilitate the statutory process and conversion of schools to Academy status it be approved that for each of the establishments the Local Authority, as appropriate, enter into:

3. That authority be delegated to the Director of Children’s Services to agree the terms of the documents set out in paragraphs ii (a) and ii (b) above, to be entered into in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children.

Alternative Options Considered

None – this is a statutory process following the exercise of the educational establishments’ discretion to choose to convert to Academy status under the Academies Act 2010.

Reasons for Decision

This is a statutory process following the exercise of the educational establishments to choose to convert to academy status under the Academies Act 2010.