Agenda and minutes

In accordance with the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, cases H37 and H38 were admitted late to the agenda to allow the Panel to allocate an appropriate place to the applicants.

On 28 October 2009 there were 4 children for whom admissions staff could make no reasonable offer of a school place.  The Education Admissions and Awards Advisory Panel was requested to authorise the admission of these pupils to schools where no places existed in the relevant year group.

Resolved to RECOMMEND:

That offers of admission to school be made as follows:

To note the attendance at this meeting of any duly appointed Reserve Members.

Reserve Members may attend meetings:-

(i)                 to take the place of an ordinary Member for whom they are a reserve;

(ii)               where the ordinary Member will be absent for the whole of the meeting; and

(iii)             the meeting notes at the start of the meeting at the item ‘Reserves’ that the Reserve Member is or will be attending as a reserve;

(iv)              if a Reserve Member whose intention to attend has been noted arrives after the commencement of the meeting, then that Reserve Member can only act as a Member from the start of the next item of business on the agenda after his/her arrival.

RESOLVED:  To note the attendance at this meeting of the following duly appointed Reserve Member:-

To receive declarations of personal or prejudicial interests, arising from business to be transacted at this meeting, from:

(a)               all Members of the Committee, Sub Committee, Panel or Forum;

(b)               all other Members present in any part of the room or chamber.

RESOLVED:  To note that there were no declarations of interests made.

That the minutes of the meeting held on 14 October 2009 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

In accordance with the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, the minutes of the meeting held on 14 October 2009 were admitted late to the agenda to allow the Committee to approve the content.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the meeting held on 14 October 2009 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

RESOLVED:  To note that no public questions were put, or petitions or deputations received at this meeting under the provisions of Advisory Panel and Consultative forum Procedure Rules 16, 14 and 15 (Part 4E of the Constitution) respectively.

Report of the Corporate Director of Children’s Services.

In accordance with the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, the report of the Corporate Director of Children’s Services was admitted late to the agenda to allow a decision to be taken on possible appointments.

The Panel received a report from the Corporate Director of Children’s Services, recommending that the Panel note the position with regard to the current adviser to the Panel and seek nominations from primary and secondary head teacher groups to nominate advisers to the Education Admissions and Awards Advisory Panel.

Having considered the report, the Panel was of the view that an advisor to the Panel was not required at present.

RESOLVED:  That (1) it be noted that the current adviser to the Panel had left the services of the Authority;

(2)  the Panel would appoint an adviser should it feel that there was a need to do so.

To resolve that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business, on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of confidential information in breach of an obligation of confidence, or of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972:

RESOLVED:  That the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item for the reasons set out below:

Report of the Corporate Director of Children’s Services.

(See Recommendation 1).