Decision Maker: Chief Executive Officer
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
(This decision is subject to the approval by
the Executive Member for Education and Skills on 7 December 2021 to
authorise consultation on this proposal)
To publish statutory proposals and notice for the proposal to close
Weaverthorpe CE VC Primary School on 31 August 2021.
Having taken account of the comments made by
Executive Members, and all the relevant information provided in the
associated report and at the informal meeting of Executive Members
on 8 March 2022, the Chief Executive Officer agreed to use his
emergency delegated powers to approve that;
i)Statutory proposals and notices be published on 1 April proposing
to cease to maintain Weaverthorpe CE VC Primary School with effect
from 31 August 2022.
ii) The proposals include that from 1 September 2022 the catchment
area of Luttons Community Primary School is expanded to include the
current Weaverthorpe School catchment area. There is an area of
Weaverthorpe’s catchment area that is currently shared with
Hertford Vale CE Primary School and it is proposed that area
(Butterwick) remains part of Hertford Vale’s catchment
area.
iii) A final decision on these proposals be scheduled for the
Executive on 31 May 2022.
Under his delegated decision making powers in
the Officers’ Delegation Scheme in the Council’s
Constitution, the Chief Executive Officer has power, in cases of
emergency, to take any decision which could be taken by the
Council, the Executive or a committee.
Following on from the expiry of the Local Authorities and Police
and Crime Panels (Coronavirus) (Flexibility of Local Authority and
Police and Crime Panel Meetings) (England and Wales) Regulations
2020 (“the 2020 Regulations”), which allowed for
committee meetings to be held remotely, the County Council resolved
at its meeting on 5 May 2021 (before the expiry of the Regulations)
that, for the present time, in light of the continuing Covid-19
pandemic circumstances, remote live-broadcast committee meetings
should continue as informal meetings of the committee Members, with
any formal decisions required being taken by the Chief Executive
Officer under his emergency decision making powers and after
consultation with other Officers and Members as appropriate and
after taking into account any views of the relevant Committee
Members and all relevant information. This approach has been
periodically reviewed since that time and will be further reviewed
at the Council AGM on 18 May 2022.
The Chief Executive Officer took all relevant information into
account in exercising his emergency delegated powers in this
matter, including considering the views of the Executive Members,
and made the decision set out above for the reasons set out in the
body of the report.
N/A
Publication date: 18/03/2022
Date of decision: 15/03/2022
Effective from: 26/03/2022