Agenda item

Joint Report of the Town Clerk and Director of Community and Children’s Services.

The Board considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services on the Education Strategy Refresh and the following comments were made.

·         There was potential for higher education and the Livery to feature more in the refreshed strategy.

·         Overall the refresh was a good synthesis of the City Corporation’s education activity but it arguably lacked aspiration or sense of strategic direction. For example, it did not anticipate the growing importance of digital skills.

·         An informal ideas session involving members and officers to inform the final draft of the strategy would be useful before it came back to the Board for final approval in the New Year.

RESOLVED, that

·         Subject to the comments of the Board, the refreshed Education Strategy and the further consultation with relevant Committees be endorsed.