Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Chief Executive of Education Leeds outlining proposals to close South Leeds High School and replace it with an Academy to serve the needs of children and young people from the Beeston and Holbeck, City and Hunslet and Middleton Park wards.

Further to minute 43 of the meeting held on 16^th July 2008 the Chief Executive of Education Leeds submitted a report on proposals to close South Leeds High School and to replace it with an Academy to serve the needs of children and young people from the Beeston and Holbeck, City and Hunslet and Middleton Park wards.

The Chair referred to correspondence which had been addressed to members of the Board in relation to this, and to the proposal referred to in minute 143 below, and other members confirmed their receipt of the same.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the outcome of the consultation, to close South Leeds High School on 31^st August 2009, conditional upon Department for Children, Schools and Families approval to open an academy on that site opening on 1^st September 2009, be noted.

(b)  That approval for the publication of a statutory notice to that effect be given.