Issue - meetings

This report advises the Executive Member of the progress being made around the development of a skills centre on the Danesgate site.

Members received a report which advised them of the progress being made around the development of a skills centre on the Danesgate site. Officers updated that the annex to the report, a leaflet about the Danesgate Centre, would be circulated to Members after the meeting for information. The following was discussed:

• The Danesgate Centre offered an opportunity for vocational training for young people, not offered elsewhere.
• The centre had capacity to allow 150 young people access to three strands of work related learning.
• Members supported the inclusion of vocational tutors on the staff at the Centre.

Advice of the Advisory Panel:

That the Executive Member be advised to note this report and the arrangements set out in it.

Decision of the Executive Member:

RESOLVED:That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:            To update the Executive Member.