Issue - meetings

Members are asked to declare any disclosable pecuniary or affected interests in respect of any matter to be considered at this meeting.

Any Member with a Disclosable Pecuniary Interest in a matter should withdraw from the meeting when the matter is under consideration and should notify the Democratic Services Officer in attendance that they are withdrawing as they have such an interest. If the Disclosable Pecuniary Interest is not entered on the register of Members interests the Monitoring Officer must be notified of the interest within 28 days.

Any Member with an affected Interest in a matter must disclose the interest to the meeting.  There is no requirement to withdraw from the meeting when the interest is only an affected interest, but the Monitoring Officer should be notified of the interest, if not previously notified of it, within 28 days of the meeting.

In respect of Item 7 (2021-22 proposals for the High Needs Block Budget), affected interests were declared from The Chair (as a member of the management committee of College Hall and as a Governor of Kennel Lane School), Peter Floyd (as the Chair of Governors at Kennel Lane School), Keith Grainger (as Headteacher of Garth Hill College), Debbie Smith (as a member of the management committee of College Hall), Richard Stok (as a Governor of Meadow Vale Primary School), and Councillor Barnard (as a Governor of Warfield Primary School and Garth Hill College).