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Items
No. Item

1.

Apologies

Minutes:

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Schools Forum

 

Date:    13 February 2020

 

Time:    8.30 am

 

Venue:  UCS, Shrewsbury

 

Item/Paper

 

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Minutes of schools forum HELD ON 5 december 2019

 

Present

Members

School Forum Members

Cllr Nick Bardsley

Bill Dowell (Chair)                        

Cllr Ed Potter

Mark Cooper – Secondary Headteacher

 

Caroline Clode – Professional Association rep.

Officers

John Hitchings – Academy Governor

Karen Bradshaw

Sandra Holloway – Primary Governor

Gwyneth Evans

Kerry Lynch – Primary Academy Headteacher

Jo Jones

John Parr – Academy Headteacher

Neville Ward

Michael Revell – Primary Governor

Stephen Waters

Mark Rogers – Primary Headteacher

Phil Wilson

Andrew Smith – 16 -19 Representative

Helen Woodbridge (Minutes)

Reuben Thorley – Secondary Headteacher

 

 

Observers

 

Roger Evans

 

Charles Thomas

 

 

 

ACTION

1.

Apologies

 

 

 

Apologies had been received from Sabrina Hobbs, Julia Dean, Alan Doust, Marilyn Hunt, Sian Lines, Stephen Matthews and Alan Parkhurst.

 

Late apologies were received from Shelley Hurdley, Sam John and David O’Toole.

 

 

2.

Minutes and Matters Arising

 

 

 

The minutes of the meeting held on 7 November were approved.

 

The change to Schools Forum meeting dates was confirmed.  The two meetings arranged for January have been cancelled and a new meeting has been arranged for 13 February 2020.  It was agreed that if there is a need for Gwyneth Evans/Jo Jones to consult Schools Forum members regarding the allocation of funding, this will be done via email.

 

 

 

 

3.

School Funding Arrangements 2020-21

 

 

 

Schools Forum considered and agreed the specific funding arrangements from April 2020 as detailed within the report which was presented by Gwyneth Evans.

 

Regarding the split site, Mark Rogers had a concern as less money is coming into Shropshire due to the two schools’ decision to amalgamate and then other Shropshire schools are subsidising them.

Phil Wilson advised that the schools concerned had moved to amalgamation due to an Ofsted judgement for one of the schools which required them to academise via the sponsorship route.

 

Schools Forum agreed to the lump sum split site funding of £15k.

 

Schools Forum agreed to the transfer of any remaining balance, up to 0.5%, of the Schools Block into the High Needs Block after fully funding individual schools in line with the NFF.

 

Schools Forum agreed to reduce the MFG as necessary, and within allowable limits, to ensure affordability.  Following this, if also required to reduce the AWPU factor on a consistent basis across all Shropshire schools,

 

 

4.

Consultation on the Central Retention of Dedicated Schools Grant from April 2020

 

 

 

Phil Wilson presented the paper.  He advised that there had been a 19.5% response to the consultation.

 

Schools Forum considered the consultation responses received from Shropshire maintained mainstream schools, attached to and summarised within the report, and made decisions on de-delegation and top-slicing for centrally retained services for 2020-21.

 

Maintained primary school representatives (three) unanimously decided to de-delegate funding from maintained primary school budgets for a pupil growth contingency (when growth is 15% or more) for maintained primary schools in 2020-21.

 

Michael Revell asked about reconsideration of moving back to 10%. Gwyneth Evans advised that his school’s issues  ...  view the full minutes text for item 1.

2.

Election of Chair

3.

Minutes and Matters Arising - 6 June 2019 pdf icon PDF 200 KB

4.

Information from Spending Round Announcement

Report to Follow

5.

Financial Transparency of Maintained Schools and Academy Trusts Consultation pdf icon PDF 130 KB

Additional documents:

6.

School Resource Management Advisor Support pdf icon PDF 109 KB

7.

Final Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) 2018-19 pdf icon PDF 114 KB

8.

Updated Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) 2019-20 pdf icon PDF 109 KB

9.

Dedicated Schools Grant Monitoring (DSG) 2019-20 pdf icon PDF 92 KB

Additional documents:

10.

Communications

11.

Future Meeting Dates

Future meetings (please note the new venue and diary):

 

Thursday 7 November 2019

8.30 am

The Guildhall, Frankwell

Thursday 5 December 2019

8.30 am

The Guildhall, Frankwell

Thursday 16 January 2020

8.30 am

The Guildhall, Frankwell

Thursday 30 January 2020 (provisional)

8.30 am

The Guildhall, Frankwell

Thursday 19 March 2020

8.30 am

The Guildhall, Frankwell

 

 

 

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