Agenda

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.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the meeting of 12 January 2023.

To seek endorsement to minor changes to the Schools Forum’s Constitution and Membership.

To update the Forum on the 2022 Childcare Sufficiency Assessment (CSA), to be submitted to the Executive Member and subsequently published on the Bracknell Forest Council website, as required by the authority’s statutory duty to secure sufficient childcare.

To provide an update on the development and work associated with primary and secondary SRPs (Specialist Resource Provision) within Bracknell Forest and the development and implementation of a banding tool.

To brief the Forum on the agreed areas of work as detailed in the Delivering Better Value submission to the DfE.

To seek comments on the detailed budget proposals for the High Needs Block element of the Schools Budget.  In line with the statutory funding framework, there are also a small number of decisions for the Forum to take.

The next meeting of the Forum will be held at 4.30pm on Thursday 22 June 2023.