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UPDATE ON NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL AND STATUTORY REGULATIONS FOR NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPETITION - To note the update on the new statutory regulations. (Report of the Deputy Director of Children Services)

 

 

Meeting: 11/07/2006 - Schools Organisation Committee (Item 8)

8 NEW SECONDARY SCHOOL IN HARINGEY HEARTLANDS (Agenda item 8) pdf icon PDF 67 KB

To update on the new sconedary school, and to provide an overview of the new 2006 regulations governing additional school competitions (Report of the Deputy Director, The Children’s Service) (attached).

Minutes:

Ian Bailey, Deputy Director, Children’s Service updated Members on the new secondary school proposals.   The Executive had agreed to begin the process of consultation on 26 June 2006,  on the need for a new secondary school in Haringey.  The consultation process would continue until 24 April 2007, when the SOC would take the decision under the new regulations which would come into force by the end of the current year.    The consultation is on the principle of opening a new secondary school.

 

The timetable for the consultation had been constructed to comply with the new regulations:

 

Start of consultation                                                                          26 June 2006

Public meeting                                                                                  13 July 2006

End of consultation                                                                           11 August 2006

Publication of invitation to bid to promote new school.                 4 September 2006

Proposal to go to the Executive                                                      October 2006

Public Meeting to discuss bids                                                       16 January 2007

Statutory notice period ends                                                            13 February 2007

Deadline for decision by SOC                                                        24 April 2007

 

The timetable is consistent with the development of a school for September 2010 opening.

 

Following further discussions and the enormity of the decision the SOC would be required to take in April 2007, Members felt there was a need for further legal advice and training.  Members requested that a legal officer be invited to attend the next meeting of the Committee to discuss this item.

 

RESOLVED: 

 

1.            That members note the report and recommendations.

2.            That a Legal officer be invited to attend the next meeting of the Committee to provide further advice on Member’s decision making role.