Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

This report has been considered by the Education Board and the Resource Allocation Sub Committee.

Members considered a report of the Town Clerk regarding grant funding for Christ’s Hospital and King Edward’s School Witley. The Chairman noted that the two issues had been considered by the Resource Allocation Sub Committee that day and put forward the recommendation that Christ’s Hospital be awarded £80,000 for one pupil per year, subject to further information from the School on the increase in funding requested; and that King Edward School’s annual funding be capped at £500,000 per year. In both cases authority should be delegated to the Town Clerk to consider an appropriate review period and finalise the details of each grant.

A Member noted that Christ’s Hospital had provided the City of London Corporation with the option to educate two pupils per year for the discounted amount of £120,000. A motion was proposed and seconded to adopt this option, which was lost 9 votes to 10.

Members noted the disparity in funding between Christ’s Hospital and King Edward’s School Witley and expressed dissatisfaction with the process at which the grant funding allocations had been arrived at, and suggested that the proposed joint working party look at the how the City could best allocate grant funding to its Family of City Schools objectively.

RESOLVED, that Members

·         Approve a grant funding amount of £80,000 per year to present one pupil to Christ’s Hospital, subject to further detail being provided by the School on the reasons for the increase in costs in education;

·         Cap grant funding to King Edward’s School Witley at £500,000 per year;

·         Delegate authority to the Town Clerk, in consultation with the Chairman and a Deputy Chairman, to finalise the details of each grant and an appropriate review period;

·         Request that education grant funding across the City Family of Schools be the subject of a report at a future meeting.