Decision Maker: Corporate Director Children and Young People's Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
To apply to the Department for Education for
powers to appoint an Interim Executive Board (IEB) at Forest Moor
School
PLEASE NOTE This decision was originally
published on or near the date of the decision and so call in no
longer applies. It has been re-published as part of the change in
committee management system that we use.
The Governing Board at Forest Moor were issued a pre-warning letter
on 23rd March 2018. The response from the board to this letter was
not sufficient to deliver the necessary progress, particularly with
respect to the school’s budget position. As a result, a
formal warning notice was issued on 21st May 2018. In addition, the
LA believes that the board do not have the capacity to provide the
required support and challenge to recover the budget and to create
a sustainable vision for the school which enables improvement in
standards.
The LA now proposes to use its statutory intervention powers to
apply to the DfE for approval to establish an Interim Executive
Board to secure effective governance and rapid school improvement.
This power can only be used with the consent of the Secretary of
State to whom application must be made.
The report considered by the Corporate Director contains
information of the type defined in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part 1
of Schedule 12A Local Government Act 1072 (as amended) and is
therefore exempt from publication.
Publication date: 27/04/2021
Date of decision: 14/06/2018