Issue - meetings

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of 7 December 2017.

The minutes of the meeting on 7 December 2017 were approved subject to the following changes:

The following actions were attributed to Paul Clark:

(Action: Funding policy for new schools to be revisited in advance every year by Schools Forum in terms of schools placing and numbers so Schools Forum can make a decision on the budgets proposed)

(Action: School performance data to be brought to Schools Forum to consider the impact of funding on school performance)

Matters arising from the minutes and to be presented at a future meeting of the Forum were:

• current figures on outstanding school loans for the Forum to consider current risk.

• school admissions data to understand where there were surplus school places and what the projections were going forward.

• the SEN Strategy

• The SEN Resource Unit internal audit report.

• The number of EHCP requests that were refused