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Meeting: 08/12/2016 - Council (Item 69)

Educational Re-organisation and Fair Funding (Minute 54 of 6 October 2016)

To receive and consider the recommendations of the Cabinet relating to Councillor Connetts Notice of Motion.

 

The text of the original Notice of Motion, the Cabinet’s recommendation and any reasons therefor may be seen in full at Minute 104(a) of the Cabinet held on 9 November 2016 (Page 6 of 9 November 2016 meeting, Green Pages).

 

 

 

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Pursuant to County Council Minute 54 relating to the Notice of Motion set out below as previously submitted and formally moved and seconded by Councillor Connett  that,

                       

‘Devon County Council is proud of the achievements of all schools in the county and recognises that with fair funding from Government, yet more could be done to raise educational attainment for all pupils, help them achieve their potential and aspire to achieve their ambitions.

 

The Council believes it would be a retrograde step to divert scarce national and local resources from the classrooms into yet another reorganisation of education and does not wish to see the introduction of new or additional Grammar schools in Devon.

 

Devon County Council yet again calls on the Government to ensure the education of children in Devon is properly, fairly and fully funded noting that Government is short-changing Devon schools by £23m a year.

 

"Devon has never been funded at the level it deserves and remains well below the national average for funding per pupil. Despite this historic underfunding, Devon schools have shown that they can deliver impressive educational outcomes and that no child is marginalised because responsibility is shared for the most vulnerable and who may not be in our own schools." Sue Clarke OBE MSc, former Head of Education and Learning, Devon County Council (foreword to the consultation on 2016-17 Revenue funding arrangements for schools)

 

The Council therefore calls on all Members of Parliament for Devon to challenge the Government to play fair by Devon by properly funding children's education in the county’.

 

and having had regard to the advice of the Cabinet set out in Minute 104(a) of 9 November 2016:

 

Members then formally moved and duly seconded the amendment(s) shown below and thereafter subsequently debated and determined.

 

Councillor Hart MOVED and Councillor Clatworthy SECONDED that the Cabinet’s advice be accepted and the Notice of Motion be approved as it reflects the action already taken by the Council in campaigning for fairer funding for schools, acknowledging the legislative limitations upon Councils in the choice of any new schools that may be established.

 

The amendment in the name of Councillor Hart was then put to the vote and declared CARRIED nem com and subsequently thereafter also CARRIED as the substantive motion.



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