Agenda item

Report of the Director of Open Spaces.

This report was considered and approved by the Open Spaces and City Gardens Committee at its meeting on 13 October 2014.

The Open Spaces Departmental Business Manager introduced a report on the City of London Corporation’s Education Strategy. She gave some context to the adoption of a new Open Spaces Education Strategy, noting that it had been agreed by the Policy and Resources Committee that some savings could be made through the reduction of education provision at Hampstead Heath, the City Gardens and West Ham Park.  

            She went on to note that the new Open Spaces Education Strategy had three aims: to improve partnership working, provide more targeted education, and to deepen the involvement of the Open Spaces Department in the provision of education through providing a strategy for delivery throughout the year instead of the current site-by-site provision. Moreover the adoption of the new Open Spaces Education Strategy was in response to the adoption of the City of London Corporation’s wider Education Strategy and reflected the Open Spaces wider involvement in the Learning & Engagement Forum. She concluded by noting that the scale of planned education provision would be subject to a successful application the City Bridge Trust. In response to a question from the Chairman she confirmed that sports provision had been deliberately excluded from the strategy, though added that this was another area in which the Open Spaces provided significant facilities to local communities.

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