Agenda item

8.1

The Committee received a report of the Policy and Improvement Officer, setting out the Committee’s remaining Work Programme for 2016/17.

8.2

The Chair stated that, at present, the further report on attainment was scheduled to be submitted in the form of a briefing paper, to the Committee, at its meeting on 20^th February, 2017. However, given some of the points raised at this meeting, and in the light of the remaining items on the Work Programme, the Chair proposed that the Committee agree that the nature of the further report be discussed by himself, the Deputy Chair and the Policy and Improvement Officer, to agree a suitable way forward.

8.3

Alison Warner raised the point that the Government’s “Education For All” Bill had now been dropped, so the briefing paper on “Education Excellence Everywhere White Paper”, scheduled for 20^th February, 2017, could now be removed from the Work Programme. However, it was accepted that this was a policy area that the Committee would want to keep a watching brief on.

8.4

RESOLVED: That, subject to the amendments relating to the issues now reported, the Committee approves the remaining Work Programme for 2016/17 as detailed in the report now submitted.