Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Children & Families Scrutiny Committee.

The report details the Children & Families Scrutiny Review Panel's review of pupil place planning, and sets out the panel's key findings and recommendations to Cabinet. 

The Cabinet is recommended to consider the report and consider how it might respond to the report’s findings and recommendations. 

Officer contact: Chris Harland on 0161 521 1707 or email: chris.harland@stockport.gov.uk

Councillor Linda Holt presented the final report of the Scrutiny Review into Pupil Place Planning (copies of which had been circulated) and to answer questions from the Cabinet.

The Cabinet Member for Children, Families & Education (Councillor Wendy Meikle) welcomed the findings of the review and noted that the suitability and location of capacity in the system was a vital element in the sufficiency of school places in the borough.  It was commented that the Council was working towards increasing capacity in the special educational needs sector to address school place sufficiency in that area.

RESOLVED -  (1) That the Director of Education be requested to prepare a response to the “Pupil Place Planning” Scrutiny Review and the recommendations contained therein for consideration by the Cabinet at a future meeting.

(2) That the gratitude of the Cabinet be recorded for the excellent work undertaken by the Scrutiny Review Panel ‘Pupil Place Planning’ and others involved in the Review.