Agenda item

To consider the joint report of the Director of Children’s Services and the Chief Executive of Education Leeds on proposed consultation on an approach to the transformation of secondary and post-16 provision in Leeds.

An appendix to this report is designated exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rule 10.4(1) & (2).

The Director of Children’s Services and the Chief Executive of Education Leeds submitted a joint report on proposed consultation on an approach to the transformation of secondary and post-16 provision in Leeds.

A four page appendix, circulated with the agenda as exempt, was circulated at the meeting in a revised form which included two pages of open information and two pages of exempt information.  In introducing the item the Executive Member (Learning) indicated that all references to “The Central Leeds School Improvement and Learning Alliance” should be amended to read “The Leeds Learning Alliance”.

Following consideration of the two page final appendix to the report designated as exempt under Access to Information Procedure Rules 10.4(1) and (2), which was considered in private at the conclusion of the meeting it was

RESOLVED –

(a)  That consultation be undertaken on the following:

·  The Transforming Secondary and Post-16 Provision in Leeds paper

·  The Academies in Leeds paper

(b)  That the publication of the Central Leeds School Improvement and Learning Alliance prospectus be approved.

(c)  That the progress being made with the Learning and Skills Council Review be noted and that a further report be brought to this Board in November commenting as part of the formal consultation on the Learning and Skills Council preferred way forward.

(d)  That further reports be brought to this Board outlining the outcome of consultation and expressions of interest in joining the Alliance and sponsoring any Academies in Leeds.