Agenda item

To confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 3 March 2011.

The chair explained that some amendments would need to be made to the minutes of the meeting held on 3 March 2011 with regards to the discussion around local schools.

Cllr Catherine McDonald explained the situation around Rotherhithe School. The council had previously received a formal letter from the government which had informed them that the funding of £19.6 million for Rotherhithe School, as part of Building Schools for the Future, had been withdrawn.  However, a subsequent spreadsheet detailing schools to be funded, which had been received by council officers on 10 March 2011, had listed Rotherhithe School among the projects going ahead. A letter asking for urgent clarification on what funding was available and when had been sent to the Department for Education on 14 March 2011, but no formal response had been received. However, since this time a council officer had received a telephone call from the government agency responsible asking the council to resubmit their pupil place prediction.

RESOLVED:

That agreement of the minutes of the meeting held on 3 March 2011 be deferred to the next meeting.