Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Cabinet Member for Education.

Offerton Hall Nursery has been identified as requiring review following a proposal by the Nursery School in 2016 to improve sustainability of the provision. With upcoming changes to nursery education provision nationally, consideration must be given to the future viability and sustainability of the setting.

The Cabinet is asked to consider feedback from public consultation and requests a decision on whether to publish related statutory proposals for future nursery education arrangements at Offerton Hall Nursery and Dial Park Primary Schools.

The Cabinet is requested to consider feedback from the consultation and approve the publication of related statutory proposals to:

·         Discontinue Offerton Hall Nursery School with effect from 31^st August 2018; and

·         Reduce the lower age limit of Dial Park Primary School in order to accommodate nursery provision with effect from 1^st September 2018.

The Cabinet is also requested to delegate authority for the final decisions to the Corporate Director for People, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Education if there are no significant objections received during the formal representation period.

Officer contact: Michelle Booth, 0161 218 1061, michelle.booth@stockport.gov.uk

The Cabinet Member for Education submitted a report (copies of which had been circualted) inviting the Cabinet to consider the outcome of a consultation on changes to Offerton Hall Nursery and Dial Park Primary School.

The Cabinet Member emphasised that the schools involved and most of the respondents to the consultation had been supportive of the proposals. He also stressed that while there was likely to be impacts of the proposals on staff, there was confidence that this could be managed effectively to minimise that impact.

RESOLVED – (1) That in relation to proposals for the future of Offerton Hall Nursery and Dial Park Primary School the feedback to from the consultation be noted and approval be given to the publication of related statutory proposals to:

·           discontinue Offerton Hall Nursery School with effect from 31st August 2018; and

·           reduce the lower age limit of Dial Park Primary School in order to accommodate nursery provision with effect from 1st September 2018.

(2) That authority for the final decisions on the proposals be delegated to the Corporate Director for People, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Education in the event that there were no significant objections received during the formal representation period.

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for People.

The report requests the Committee to comment before consideration by the Cabinet on the feedback from public consultation and to decide whether to publish related statutory proposals in relation to future nursery education provision at Offerton Hall Nursery and Dial Park Primary Schools.

The Scrutiny Committee is invited to consider and comment on the report.

Officer Contact: Michelle Booth on Tel: 0161 218 1061 or by email on michelle.booth@stockport.gov.uk

A representative of the Corporate Director for People submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) requesting the Scrutiny Committee to comment on the public consultation results relating to the future nursery education provision at Offerton Hall Nursery and Dial Park Primary School.

RESOLVED – That the Cabinet be informed that the Scrutiny Committee supports the publication of the related statutory proposals to:

·         Discontinue Offerton Hall Nursery with effect from 31 August 2018; and

·         Reduce the lower age limit of Dial Park Primary School in order to accommodate nursery provision with effect from 1 September 2018.