Agenda item

Melanie Ellis introduced the report which provided detail of the four schools, which had submitted deficit budgets for 2019/20 and the two schools which had ended the 2018/19 financial year with unlicensed deficit balances.

Four schools submitted a West Berkshire Council Deficit Budget License Application for the financial year 2019/20. All four had licensed deficits in the financial year 2018/19. Two schools had ended 2018/19 with a deficit however had set a balanced budget going forward.

Positively the table under section 3.4, showed that all four schools expected to be out of deficit by 2020/21.

RESOLVED that further information on deficit schools including the information referenced under Action Jul-Ac2 would be brought to the next meeting of the Schools’ Forum on 9^th December 2019.