Agenda and minutes

At this point Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda. A list of general personal interests previously declared are attached.

The following Members and Co-optees declared a general personal interest in the business on the agenda:

Councillor Aspden – Governor Knavesmire Primary School, member of the National Union of Teachers and employee of Norton College.

Councillor Bartlett – Governor of Millthorpe and St Paul’s CE Primary School

Councillor Blanchard – Chair of Young Enterprise

            Co-opted Statutory Members

Dr D Sellick – Governor of Derwent Infant and Junior School

Mr J Bailey – Governor of Huntington School

To approve and sign the minutes of the last meeting of the Committee held on 20 June 2006.

RESOLVED:That the minutes of the meeting held on 20 June 2006 be approved and signed by the Chair as a correct record.

At this point in the meeting members of the public who have registered their wish to speak regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the Panel’s remit can do so. Anyone who wishes to register or requires further information is requested to contact the Democracy Officer on the contact details listed at the foot of this agenda. The deadline for registering is Tuesday 18 July at 10.00am.

It was reported that there had been no registrations to speak at the meeting under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

This report asks Members to consider the draft final report of the scrutiny review into the extended schools service in York.

Consideration was given to the draft final report of the scrutiny review into the extended schools service in York.

A revised version of the draft final report, which set out changes that had been agreed at the last meeting, had been circulated to Members, prior to the meeting.

The Chair pointed out that there were a number of typographical errors in the circulated reports, which had been corrected in the electronic version of the document.

Following discussion it was

RESOLVED:That it be agreed that the report and recommendations be submitted to the Scrutiny Management Committee subject to the correction of typographical and grammatical points and the following amendments:

·        In Recommendation 4 the insertion of the word ‘of’ prior to the words ‘a flexible’ in the second line.

·        In Recommendation 5 the deletion of the word ‘extended and its replacement with ‘extends’ in the final line.

·        On page 21 in the first paragraph under the heading ‘St Aelred’s Roman Catholic Primary School’ the deletion of the sentence ‘85% of pupils are Catholics, with some other Christians and some Asians’.

·        On page 23 the insertion of the word ‘currently’ prior to the words ‘by the Chair’ in the third sentence of the first paragraph relating to Osbaldwick Primary School.

REASON:      To facilitate completion of the former Education Scrutiny Board’s outstanding work and to ensure that the final report reflects the Board’s intentions.