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 on the vision for the City of London Corporation’s Education Strategy. A member referenced the recent announcement by the Mayor of New York that he would be addressing a skills-gap in the city through a New Yorkers Task Force, using data provided by the JP Morgan Chase. Members discussed whether the forthcoming reconsideration of the Education Strategy’s vision statement should include an element of external peer-review of the City’s ambitions in education, and agreed that this would be feasible subject to cost.

RESOLVED, that

·         The action plan (tabled) be noted;

·         The proposal to consider the Education Strategy vision at a seminar in February 2016 be supported.