Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

Members considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding a SGOSS Funding proposal and proposed changes to the City Corporation’s nomination to SGOSS’s Board of Trustees and company membership and the following points were made.

·         In response to a question, the Education Policy Officer noted that the funds for the proposal were included within the Education Budget’s local risk budget line for strategic partnerships.

·         A Member noted that many e-learning modules were freely available to school governing bodies and requested that SGOSS be asked to provide more detail on the type of modules they planned to create using City monies.

RESOLVED, that Members

·         Agree to recommend to the Outside Bodies Sub-Committee, should SGOSS formally offer a right of nomination to the City Corporation, that the nominee should be an elected Member currently serving on the Education Board, whose nomination would require the approval of the Policy and Resources Committee

·         Delegate authority to the Town Clerk, in consultation with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, to Agree to fund SGOSS to the sum of £24,340 from City’s Cash to promote governor led employability initiatives within schools in London per its proposal