Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk.

Members considered a report of the Town Clerk regarding an update on the Tomlinson Review. The following matters were raised:

·         The Town Clerk noted that the report would be going to Policy & Resources Committee in February 2020, not January.

·         Members discussed the recommendation for a technical pathway. This proposal was due to be considered within a review of Sixth Form provision, that had already been commissioned.

·         Concern was raised about grant applications being submitted to the Education Board by the City’s Family of Schools for projects that should be covered under core government funding.

·         The question of the funding balance between the academies and independent schools was due to form the focus of conversation at the forthcoming City Grants Education Spending Working Party.

·         It was requested that the Tomlinson Review be submitted for consideration within the City of London Corporation’s Governance Review.

Members noted both the report and noted Sir Mike Tomlinson’s Review, and endorsed the CGES Working Party’s recommendations made in respect of the Review.