Agenda and minutes

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 23 December 2009 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

RESOLVED:  That the minutes of the meeting held on 23 December 2009 be taken as read and signed as a correct record.

To receive questions (if any) from local residents or organisations under the provisions of Advisory Panel and Consultative Forum Procedure Rule 16 (Part 4E of the Constitution).

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

To resolve that the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item of business, on the grounds that it involves 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 Children’s Services.

On 20 January 2010, there was one child, reference H44, for whom admissions staff could make no reasonable offer of a school place.  The Education Admission and Awards Panel was requested to authorise the admission of this pupil to a school where no places existed in the relevant year group.

The Panel was informed that all other cases detailed in the officer’s report had been withdrawn as these children had since been placed at one of their preferred schools.

The Panel also asked for details of cases that had been withdrawn.

Resolved to RECOMMEND:  (to the Corporate Director Children’s Services)

That child H44 be admitted to Year Group 11 at Whitmore High School.

RESOLVED:  Members requested that, in the future, when children were placed into a school prior to the meeting, the Panel be provided with details of the placements.