SCHOOLS FORUM Meeting to Be Held from 17:30 on Wednesday 11 December 2013

SCHOOLS FORUM Meeting to be held from 17:30 on Wednesday 11 December 2013

Venue: Enfield County School, Holly Walk, Enfield EN2 6QG (NOTE: Sangeeta Brown, Resources Development Manager - 07956 539613)

Schools Members: Maintained Schools: Governors: Ms N Conway (Primary), Cllr I Cranfield (Primary), Mr B Grayston (Primary), Mrs J Leach (Special), Mrs L Sless (Primary), Mr T McGee (Secondary), Mr G Stubberfield (Secondary) Headteachers: Mrs P Alder (Primary), Vacancy (Secondary), Mr B Goddard (Secondary), Mr G Lefley (Pupil Referral Unit), Mrs S Moore (Primary), Mrs P Rutherford (Secondary), Mr P Smith (Primary), Mrs P De Rosa (Special), Mr R Yarwood (Primary)

Academies: Mr M Lees, Ms R Stanley-McKenzie

Non-Schools Members: Chair of Children’s Services Scrutiny Panel Cllr R Simbodyal Early Years Provider Mrs S Roberts 14-19 Partnership Mr K Hintz Teachers’ Committee Mr S McNamara Assistant Director Education Ms J Tosh Head of Behaviour Support Mr J Carrick Observers: Cabinet Member Cllr A Orhan Education Funding Agency Ms B Pennekett

********************************************************************************* MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO ARRIVE AT 17:15 PM WHEN SANDWICHES WILL BE PROVIDED ENABLING A PROMPT START AT 17:30 PM (Target time) (17:30)

1. INTRODUCTIONS and APOLOGIES for ABSENCE To note the withdrawal of Ms Sue Tripp from the Schools Forum as a Special School Representative and to welcome Mr Peter De Rosa as the new nominee to represent Special Schools.

2. DECLARATION OF INTEREST Members are invited to identify any personal or prejudicial interests relevant to items on the agenda. A definition of personal and prejudicial interests has been attached for members’ information.

(17:35) 3. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES (WHITE) (a) Schools Forum Meeting held on 16 October 2013 (attached) (b) Matters arising from these minutes

(17:40) 4. ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION (PINK) (a) LA Budget Consultation (2014/15) (attached)

(18:10) 5. ITEMS FOR DECISION (BLUE) (a) Additionally Resourced Provision (attached) (b) Autism Provision – Update (attached) (c) School Budget (2014/15) - Update (attached) (d) Dedicated Schools Grant: Central Budgets (2013/14–2014/15) (attached)

(19:15) 6. ITEM FOR INFORMATION (CREAM) (a) Pupil Count- Impact of changes(attached) (b) Pupil Places Strategy (attached)

7. WORKPLAN (attached)

8. ANY OTHER BUSINESS

9. FUTURE MEETINGS (a) Proposed Dates for future meetings  22 January 2014 – Venue to be confirmed  5th March 2014 – To be confirmed  May 2014 – To be confirmed

(b) Apologies for absence from the proposed meetings

10. CONFIDENTIALITY To consider which items should be treated as confidential.

MINUTES OF THE SCHOOLS FORUM MEETING HELD ON 16 OCTOBER 2013 AT ENFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL Schools Members Governors: Mr B Grayston (Primary), Ms N Conway(Primary), Mrs J Leach(Special), Mrs L Sless (Primary), Mr G Stubberfield (Secondary), Mr T McGee (Secondary), Cllr I Cranfield (Primary)

Headteachers Mrs P Alder (Primary), Mr B Goddard (Secondary), Mr G Lefley (Pupil Referral Unit), Mrs S Moore (Primary), Mrs S Tripp (Special), Ms P Rutherford (Secondary), Mr P Smith (Primary), Mr R Yarwood (Primary),

Academies Mr M Lees, Ms R Stanley-McKenzie

Non-Schools Members: Chair of Children’s Services Scrutiny Panel Cllr R Simbodyal Early Years Provider Mrs S Roberts 14-19 Partnership Mr K Hintz Teachers’ Committee Mr Stuart McNamara Assistant Director Education Ms J Tosh Head of Behaviour Support Mr J Carrick ______Observers: Member (Observer) Cllr A Orhan Assistant Direct, Commissioning and Com. Engagement Ms E Stickler Finance Business Partner Ms J Fitzgerald Resources Development Manager Mrs S Brown Resources Development Officer Ms J Bedford

Italics denotes absence

1. INTRODUCTIONS and APOLOGIES for ABSENCE Apologies for absence were received from: Ms Stanley-McKenzie, Mrs Moore, Mr Lefley, Mr Goddard, Mrs Alder, Ms Conway,

MEMBERSHIP: Reported:

(a) Following Mr Gow’s retirement, Mr Stuart McNamara would be joining the Forum as a Teachers’ Union Representative.

The Schools Forum welcomed Mr McNamara to the Forum and noted his apologies from the meeting.

(b) Ms Janet Cullen had confirmed that she would be resigning as a member of the Schools Forum.

NOTED the membership of the Schools Forum was required to reflect the make-up of the pupil population.

Agreed to delay recruitment to this vacancy until the pupil number information was finalised following the Pupil Census.

Agreed: Mrs Brown

2. DECLARATION OF INTEREST There were no declarations of interest.

3. MINUTES AND MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES

(a) Schools Forum meeting held on 11 July 2013 Received and agreed the minutes of the meeting of the Schools’ Forum held on 11 July 2013, a copy of which is included in the Minute book.

(b) Commissioning Group Meetings held on 13 September 2013 and 10 October 2013 Received and noted the minutes of the meeting of the Commissioning Group held on 13 September 2013 and 10 October 2013.

4. ITEM FOR DECISION

(a) Responses to Consultation on School Funding Arrangements (2014/15) Received a paper providing details on the Results of Consultation & Proposed Changes to the Consultation Document for Funding Arrangements for Schools and Academies (2014-15), a copy of which is included in the Minute Book.

Reported that the consultation document had been circulated according to timetable agreed by the Forum at their last meeting and only one response had been received to the proposals contained in the document. It was stated the reason for the low response rate may have been due to the short timescale for responding. Due to the low response rate, the report presented to the Forum was a summary of the proposals contained in the consultation document and the Forum was being asked to consider and agree the proposals contained in the report.

Noted: (i) The key driver of the Government policy was for as much funding as possible to be delegated on a per pupil basis.

(ii) The primary pupil premium was increasing from £900 to £1,300 for primary schools but confirmation of the rate for secondary schools was awaited. The rate for children in care had been increased to £1,900.

It was questioned what was meant by one day or more for the funding criteria. It was stated that this change was to ensure any child who was in care irrespective of how long should be recognised for funding purposes. The funding would be allocated based on the information provided on the annual census.

It was confirmed that children in care were deemed to be those children looked after under a care order and they would continue to be under the care of the LA even if they were taken into police custody. Attached to the minutes is the DfE guidance related to this.

(iii) The DfE had identified two key areas of change for the local funding formula: these were prior attainment and mobility. The current pupil data set had been used to consider the options available which would provide least turbulence and a ‘best fit’ at individual school level. The illustrative model attached to the report aimed to meet this requirement.

(iv) The impact of the changes to prior attainment for primary schools would not be known until the Education Funding Agency provided the data set. The change in the criteria for secondary school to pupils who do not achieve level 4 in English or Maths meant far more pupils would attract this funding. It was stated that whilst more pupils would

attract the funding, the modelling indicated that this criteria should be retained in the local funding formula.

It was commented that the use of the assessment data for English based on pupils not achieving Level 4 in either reading or writing would also pro