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

The Director of Community and Children’s Services introduced an update report on recent Education Strategy implementation activity. He noted that officers had received positive feedback from the Education Funding Agency on the City Corporation’s two applications for free schools in Islington and Southwark and that interviews for both applications were scheduled for 5 February 2015.

The Chairman noted that the Department for Education had recently been in touch with Redriff Primary School to notify it of its Pupil Premium Award, and separately to thank the City Corporation for its commitment as an academy sponsor to raising standards and improving the education of students in London.

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