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Medway Council Education Strategic Framework

Meeting: 19/10/2021 - Cabinet (Item 6)

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Additional documents:

Minutes:

Background:

 

This report provided two documents for Cabinet approval, the Medway Education Strategy 2021-2024 (Appendix 1) and the Medway School Effectiveness Strategy 2021-2024 (Appendix 2).  These documents, alongside the Council’s School Place Planning Strategy and the SEND Strategy, would together form Medway Council’s education strategic framework.

 

The framework would seek to outline the role for the local authority:

 

As a result of the 2010 coalition Government’s white paper, the Importance of Teaching, and how the Council intends to meet requirements;

 

To ensure school effectiveness aims, priorities and principles as well as operational arrangements for quality assuring, monitoring and evaluating and supporting and challenging schools.

 

A diversity impact assessment had been carried out and was attached at Appendix 3.

 

The Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee had considered the report at its meeting on 30 September 2021 and its comments were set out at section 6 of the report.

 

Decision number:

Decision:

The Cabinet noted the comments of the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee, as set out in section 6 of the report.

113/2021

The Cabinet approved the Education Strategic Framework, as detailed within the strategies attached at Appendices 1 and 2 to the report.

 

Reasons:

 

The strategic framework allows the Council to set out how as an organisation it will look to enable the system to achieve the aims set out in the Council’s strategy.