Agenda item

Ian Pearson introduced the report which sought to review the services which maintained schools de-delegated to be centrally provided in 2016/17. The Primary and Secondary School representatives on the Schools Forum were each required to make a decision for their own phase.

There were four services where maintained schools had the option to pool back funding for the service to continue being centrally provided in 2016/17 on the basis of economies of scale or pooled risk. These being:

·         Behaviour Support Service

·         Ethnic Minority Support Service

·         Trade Union Representation

·         Schools in Financial Difficulty

The Schools Forum noted that attached as Appendix E to the report was a letter from the Trade Unions expressing their support for schools to continue to de-delegate funding in respect of Trade Union Representation.

The recommendations from Heads Funding Group were as follows:

DECISION: that the Schools Forum agree to de-delegate funding in respect of the above listed services as per the recommendations of the Heads Funding Group.