Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Decision made
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
To report on the progress of the Gillingham
Education Action Zone and transitional arrangements to an
excellence cluster on 9 January 2005.
295/2003 The Cabinet noted the progress made
by the Gillingham Education Action Zone and endorsed the proposals
to develop an excellence cluster in Medway.
296/2003 The Cabinet agreed to consider funding the shortfall
between current funding of the Education Action Zone and that of
the excellence cluster from the 2004/05 financial year onwards and
that priority is given to allocating this additional funding for
initiatives that enable schools to share knowledge and best
practice.
It is important to ensure that transitional
arrangements are in place in advance of the end of the North
Gillingham Education Action Zone on 9 January 2005.The Education
and Lifelong Learning Overview and Scrutiny Committee recommended
that the difference in funding currently allocated to the EAZ and
that to develop an Excellence Cluster be met by the local authority
and this will be considered during the budget setting process for
2004/2005
Publication date: 14/10/2003
Date of decision: 14/10/2003
Decided at meeting: 14/10/2003 - Cabinet
Effective from: 23/10/2003