Agenda item

4.1

The minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 5^th November 2018, were approved as a correct record and, arising therefrom:-

(a)      the Policy and Improvement Officer (Deborah Glen) stated that she would contact Kate Wilkinson (Service Manager – Performance and Analysis Service) in connection with the request made by Councillor Bob Pullin for statistics regarding indices of deprivation for Batemoor, Jordanthorpe and Low Edges, and obtain a timescale for this to be delivered by;

(b)      the Chair reported that he had received a copy of the correspondence sent by Councillor Jackie Drayton (Cabinet Member for Children and Families) to the Parent Carer Forum, in response to a request by the Forum for further information, and that he would arrange for Councillor Drayton’s response to be circulated to all Members of the Committee;

(c)      further to comments made at the November meeting by Councillor Mohammad Maroof, Deborah Glen stated that she was in the process of arranging for a message to be sent to the Council’s representative on the Schools Forum to try and ensure that schools continued to record and report the five-stage proficiency in English code; and

(d)      the Chair reported that he would be contacting Mark Sheikh (Head of Service – Business Strategy) to discuss the issue regarding further investigations into the potential for prudential borrowing with regard to capital funding for schools.

4.2

RESOLVED: That, with regard to the statistics relating to indices of deprivation for Batemoor, Jordanthorpe and Low Edges, and to further requests by other Members of the Committee for similar information in terms of their Wards, Kate Wilkinson be requested to provide such information to Councillors Bob Pullin, Andy Bainbridge and Ian Saunders, in respect of the Beauchief and Greenhill, East Ecclesfield and Beighton Wards, respectively.