Issue - meetings

RECOMMENDATIONS         

i)                 To request approval from the Executive to authorise the acceptance for grant funding of £1,000,000.

ii)                To request approval from the Executive that the authorisation of the grant Memorandum of Understanding should be delegated to the Corporate Director, Resources in conjunction with the Assistant Chief Executive, Legal and Democratic Services.

Considered – A report of the Corporate Director – Children and Young People’s Service requesting approval to accept an offer of grant funding for £1,000,000 from the Department for Education’s (DfE) ‘Delivering Better Value in SEND Programme’.

In the absence of Councillor Janet Sanderson, Councillor Annabel Wilkinson introduced the report and explained that the Council had been invited to take part in the programme as one of 55 local authorities.  The report requested the Executive accept the offer of grant funding of £1m to support three key areas of the SEND programme as described in section 4 of the report. 

Resolved – That:

i)                 the acceptance for grant funding of £1,000,000 be authorised; and

ii)                the authorisation of the grant Memorandum of Understanding should be delegated to the Corporate Director, Resources in conjunction with the Assistant Chief Executive, Legal and Democratic Services.