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Items
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1. |
Apologies
Minutes:
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Schools
Forum
Date: 13 September
2018
Time: 8.30 am
Venue: STDC, Monkmoor,
Shrewsbury
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Item/Paper
A
Public
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Minutes of schools forum HELD ON 21
JUNE 2018
Present
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Members
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School Forum
Members
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Cllr Nick
Bardsley
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Bill Dowell (Chair)
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Cllr Ed Potter
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Phil Adams –
Academy Headteacher
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Alan Doust –
Secondary Headteacher
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Officers
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Jean Evanson –
Professional Association Representative
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Phil Wilson
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John Hitchings –
SSGC
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Julia Dean
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Sabrina Hobbs –
Academy Headteacher
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Gwyneth Evans
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Marylin Hunt –
Primary Headteacher
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Jo Jones
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Shelly Hurdley –
Early Years Representative
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Chris Mathews
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Samantha John
–Academy
Representative
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Stephen Waters
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Kerry Lynch –
Academy Headteacher
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Helen Woodbridge
(Minutes)
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Stephen Matthews –
Primary Governor (and headteacher)
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Alan Parkhurst –
Primary Headteacher
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Observers
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Geoff Renwick –
Academy Headteacher
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Roger Evans
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Michael Revell –
Primary Governor
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Mark Rogers –
Primary Headteacher
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Andrew Smith – 16
-19 Representative
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Guy Verling –
Primary Headteacher
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ACTION
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1.
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Apologies
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Apologies had been received
from Pete Johnstone, Philip Sell, Karen Bradshaw, Neville Ward and
Michael Barratt.
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2.
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Minutes and Matters Arising (Paper A)
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- The minutes were
approved as a true record of the meeting.
- Item 3 Phil Wilson
advised of constructive meetings with Woodlands and Severndale
Schools and thanked them for their input. The funding mechanism will be finalised for
the Autumn term and should be a sustainable model. The Chair thanked officers, governors and staff
for their work on this.
- Item 4 Phil Wilson
provided feedback from the Deficit Budget Working
Group. There have been constructive
conversations re challenges around the use of capital
receipts. There is further work to
do. The group will be meeting again at
the end of September.
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3.
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Allocation of Early Years Block
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Phil Wilson went through the
paper.
He advised that the level of
funding continues to be a challenge so lobbying
continues.
Shelly Hurdley advised that she
had heard of instances where some charges are being made to parents
for some items.
John Hitchings asked about
population projections for Shropshire.
Phil Wilson advised of
significant growth in primary pupil numbers in recent years and
that this ‘bulge’ will move through into secondary in
the coming years. He described a number of projects which are
underway to expand some primary schools. He added that up until now spare capacity in
schools had been used.
It was agreed that a paper re
place planning will be brought to Schools Forum in the Autumn
term.
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PW
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4.
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School Balances as at March
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Gwyneth Evans went through this
annual paper and a confidential appendix was circulated (and
subsequently collected).
The headlines are that school
balances are reducing and that deficit balances are reducing and
continue to be monitored.
Chris Mathews clarified the
conditions for a deficit being licensed which are around standards
and the ability to repay.
John Hitchings noted that the
pattern is changing – trend was that smaller schools had
large surpluses and it is now more of a mixture.
The Chair was disappointed that
there is no similar information available on academies which seems
perverse when considering ... view the
full minutes text for item 1.
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2. |
Election of Chair
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3. |
Minutes and Matters Arising - 21 June 2018 PDF 199 KB
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4. |
Funding Arrangements for Severndale Academy and Woodlands School PDF 123 KB
Additional documents:
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5. |
Schools Revenue Funding 2019 - 20 PDF 117 KB
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6. |
Dedicated Schools Grant Monitoring PDF 92 KB
Additional documents:
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7. |
Schools Revenue Funding Arrangements for 2019 to 2020, Lord Hill Hotel, Wednesday 10 October 2018
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8. |
Communications
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9. |
Future meeting dates
Future meetings
(please diary):
8 November 2018
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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6 December 2018
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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17 January 2019
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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31 January 2019 (provisional)
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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21 March 2019
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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6 June 2019
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8.30 am
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STDC, Monkmoor
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