Agenda item

9.1

The Committee received a report of the Policy and Improvement Officer which set out the Committee’s draft Work Programme for 2017/18.

9.2

Members suggested that items on home education, levels of exclusion in Sheffield schools, skills development for 16-19 year olds and child poverty be considered for inclusion in the Work Programme 2017/18.   There was also a request for a briefing paper on research undertaken by the Social Market Foundation’s Commission on Inequality in Education, to focus on two of the recommendations in the Commission’s findings, around encouraging teachers to work in disadvantaged areas and the provision of academic activities by independent (charitable status) schools.   

9.3

RESOLVED: That the Committee approves the Committee’s Work Programme for 2017/18, subject to the inclusion of the items and briefing paper now mentioned.