Agenda item

The Chair to be heard.

Members received an update from the Chair regarding the Tomlinson Review.

The Board were informed that the Education Grants Working Party had not met as planned as there had been no capacity to draw together a funding model that reflected Sir Mike Tomlinson’s recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was hoped that this would be ready for the end of October 2020. It was noted that any proposed funding model should be allowed for within the forthcoming budgeting exercise and the Board agreed that a resolution should go to the Resource Allocation Sub-Committee to ensure that this was not overlooked.

Members were pleased that a number of Sir Mike Tomlinson’s recommendations had been captured in the City’s Governance Review conducted by Lord Lisvane.  The Board agreed that, in light of the Governance Review, the Tomlinson Review should be made public even though the City’s responses to the recommendations were not finalised. This action would be followed up by the Town Clerk.

RESOLVED that,

·         The update be noted; and

·         The Resource Allocation Sub-Committee be given formal advanced notice of the proposed new funding model for schools (which is hoped to form part of a new policy on the balance of funding between the City’s academies and its independent schools), so it can be included in the City’s next budgeting exercise.