Ealing Schools Forum Membership
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Ealing Borough Council Democratic Services Officer: Town Hall Cornelia Harding New Broadway Direct Line: 020 8825 7380 London W5 2BY Email:[email protected] Ealing Schools Forum Venue: Council Chamber, Town Hall, New Broadway, Ealing, W5 2BY Date and Time: Thursday, 05 July 2018 at 18:15 AGENDA Open to Public and Press Please note pre-meeting for Members at 5.15pm. Schools Forum Membership 3 - 4 1 Appointment of Chair 2 Apologies for Absence 3 Urgent Matters Page 1 of 68 4 Matters to be Considered in Private 5 Declarations of Interest 6 Minutes Ealing Schools' Forum Minutes 17 April 2018 5 - 10 7 Matters Arising from the Minutes 8 MEMBERSHIP: 9 Audit and Fraud Update 11 - 16 10 Schools Funding Report 2018-19 to 2019-20 17 - 68 11 Date of Next Meeting Paul Najsarek, Chief Executive, 27 June 2018 NOTE: In the event of an emergency your attention is drawn to the evacuation instructions displayed on the wall by the entrance to the Committee Room. First Aid advice can also be found here. Page 2 of 68 EALING SCHOOLS FORUM MEMBERSHIP Term of office is three years except for councillors who are appointed annually. Start of Expiry of Category of Name School Term of Term of Office member Office (3 years) Special Schools x Paul Adair Castlebar 1 October 30 September 2 2015 2018 Ian Buchanan Springhallow 1 November 31 October 2016 2019 Nursery Schools Beverley Head of South 17 October 16 October 2020 x 1 Kellett Acton Children’s 2017 Centre Primary Schools Bill Griffiths Clifton Primary 1 November 31 October x 10 School 2016 2019 Belinda Ewart Mayfield Primary 1 October 30 September School 2015 2018 Colin Groves Ravenor Primary 1 October 30 September School 2015 2018 Benedict St. Joseph’s 12 January 11 January 2018 Cassidy Catholic Primary 2015 (office expired) School Surinder Havelock Primary 1 October 30 September Varma School 2015 2018 Margaret St. John’s 1 October 30 September Majumdar Primary School 2015 2018 VACANCY Elizabeth Horsenden 1 October 30 September Walton Primary School 2015 2018 Dave Woods Beaconsfield 1 October 30 September Primary School 2015 2018 Evelyn Ward St. Raphael’s 1 October 30 September Catholic Primary 2015 2018 School High Schools x 4 Eliot Wong Elthorne Park 6 November 5 November High School 2017 2020 Arwel Jones Brentside High 1 October 30 September School 2015 2018 Page 3 of 68 Vinita Sighat Villiers High 1 October 30 September School 2015 2018 Rachel Ellen Wilkinson 6 November 5 November Kruger School for Girls 2017 2020 Pupil Referral Tracie McNeil Ealing Alternative 1 October 30 September Unit x 1 Provision 2015 2018 Academy x 3 Harinder Woodland 29 30 November Rana Academy November 2020 2017 Gerry Wadwa Featherstone 1 October 30 September High School 2015 2018 John Twyford C of E 1 October 30 September Goddard High School 2015 2018 Representative of Kevin Oakhill Ambitious About October 30 September non-maintained Autism 2015 2018 SEN providers x 1 Representative of Stefan Simms 30 October 29 October 2020 Teaching staff x 1 2017 VA and Faith Ethos Academy/Free Vacant School Providers x 1 PVI Nursery Provider x 1 Clare Porter Hungry Caterpillars 1 July 2016 30 June 2019 Day Nurseries 16 – 19 Garry Phillips Ealing, 1 November 31 October partnership x 1 Hammersmith 2016 2019 and West London College Non-Executive Councillor 22 May 7 May 2019 Members of Driscoll 2018 Council x 3 Councillor 22 May 7 May 2019 Lusuardi 2018 Councillor 22 May 7 May 2019 Millican 2018 Page 4 of 68 Ealing Schools Forum Tuesday 17th April 2018 at 6:15 pm Council Chamber, Ealing Town Hall PRESENT: Members: Special Schools: Paul Adair, Ian Buchanan Nursery Schools: Absent Primary Schools: Margaret Majumdar (Chair), Belinda Ewart, Benedict Cassidy, Surinder Varma, Dave Woods, and Evelyn Ward. High Schools: Eliot Wong and Arwel Jones Academies: Gerry Wadwa Representative of Non-Maintained SEN Providers: Absent Representative of Teaching Staff: Stefan Simms VA and Faith Ethos Academy/Free School Providers: Vacant 16-19 Partnership Representative: Absent *Please note attendance is based on those that have signed the attendance sheet. Also Present: Judith Finlay (Executive Director, Children, Adults and Public Health), Gary Redhead (Assistant Director, Schools Planning & Resources), Carolyn Fair (Director of Children and Families), Tamara Quinn (Strategic Lead, Planning and Resources), Geraldine Chadwick (Interim Senior Finance Business Advisor, Children and Schools), Andrew Reeve (Finance Business Partner) and Cornelia Harding (Democratic Services Officer). 1. Apologies for Absence Apologies for absence had been received in advance of the meeting from the following: Non-Executive Members of Council: Ahmed and Millican Primary Schools: Elizabeth Walton High Schools: Vinita Sighat and Rachel Kruger Pupil Referral Unit: Tracie McNeil PVI Nursery Provider: Clare Porter Absent: Nursery Schools: Beverley Kellett Primary Schools: Bill Griffiths, Colin Groves, Helen O’Neill. Academy: Harinder Rana, John Goddard. Representative of Non-Maintained SEN Providers: Kevin Oakhill Page 5 of 68 Absent continued: 16-19 Partnership Representative: Gary Phillips Vacant positions: I. VA and Faith Ethos Academy/Free School Providers II. Non-Executive Members of Council - (1 out of 3) 2. Urgent Matters There were none. 3. Declarations of Interest There were none. 4. Matters to be Considered in Private There were none. 5. Update on Membership The Assistant Director, Schools Planning & Resources, Gary Redhead, drew attention to the fact that the membership of a number of Ealing Schools’ Forum (ESF) representatives lapses in September 2018. He said a nomination process, and if necessary elections, would be run this term. He also said there would be a recalculation of the balance between academy, maintained and voluntary aided schools as part of that process. The Chair, Margaret Majumdar, suggested that at the July 2018 meeting, if the election of representatives had not been completed by then, the ESF consider appointing a chair for that meeting only and subsequently elect a chair for the rest of the municipal year at the October 2018 meeting. 6. Minutes of the Previous Meeting Dave Woods, a Primary School representative, raised a point of correction in the minutes. With respect to De-delegation Amounts and Rates – Additional School Improvement, instead of the abstention that had been recorded, he had wanted his vote against the de-delegation to be recorded in the minutes. The Forum consented to this and the minutes were amended in manuscript at the meeting. RESOLVED: That, subject to the above amendment, the minutes of the meeting of the Ealing Schools Forum held on Tuesday 9th January 2018 were approved as a true and correct record and signed by the Chair. 7. Matters Arising from the Minutes (not appearing on the agenda) There were none Page 6 of 68 8. School Funding 2018-19 Scheme for Financing Schools 2018-2019 Gary Redhead (Assistant Director, Schools Planning and Resources) introduced this report. There are only minor changes to the Scheme for this year as compared to previous years with the following notable exceptions: - The arrangements for Schools when applying for Loans and Licenced Deficits (attached to the report as Appendix 2) and; - The proposed arrangements for Schools who convert to academies (attached to the report as Appendix 3). The proposed arrangements for Schools who convert to academies are new proposals designed to contribute towards the Local Authority’s costs of undertaking the work of a school converting to an academy. The amounts proposed in Appendix 3 were to allow the Local Authority (LA) to be able to charge to do the work at cost. Gary Redhead explained that the costs incurred by the LA in school academisation were variable. For example, in respect of Voluntary Aided and Foundation Schools where the authority does not own the land, the costs incurred by the Authority were less. However, in respect of schools built through a Private Finance Initiative, the costs were considerably more. The Local Authority proposals to have its costs met in this regard mirrored what was being done in other local authorities. The biggest cost outlay was in respect of the LA’s legal fees involved in academisation. It was discussed that if a situation arose wherein all LA schools were to be subjected to enforced academisation, it would be expected that this LA, along with others, would lobby the Department for Education (DfE) for a budget to cover those costs. The view was also expressed that the costs to a school itself of enforced academisation were substantial as compared to a local authority’s costs therefore for the LA to attempt to recover its costs from LA schools would be an attempt to take money from the wrong source. The counter argument to this was that the legal costs and costs incurred for the Capita Licences were not insignificant and it was common practice among local authorities to charge to cover those costs. It was felt that was particularly appropriate where a school chooses to academise. If a school was in deficit, the deficit stays with the local authority. Some schools however have large surpluses which they take with them when they academise. Therefore, it makes sense to charge if a school is in surplus. This is what other local authorities are doing. There was a consensus at the meeting that these costs were likely to be variable, Page 7 of 68 therefore the Forum agreed the proposal on the basis that the LA would remove the sentence specifying the example of the range of costs. It was noted that the following schools were currently in the process of academisation: Dormers Wells Infant and Acton High. Appendix 1, Annex 1: Schools covered by Ealing’s Scheme for Financing Schools Point of correction: Hathaway Primary should be deleted from the list as it has now become Woodlands Academy.