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Reports - 18 September 2013 PDF 95 KB
Additional documents:
Minutes:
Brent Schools Forum
Minutes of the 55th Schools Forum held
on
Wednesday 18th September 2013 at the
Village School
Attended by:
Members of the Forum
Governors
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Mike Heiser - Chair
(MH)
Martin Beard (MB)
Janice Alexander
(JA)
Titilola McDowell
(TMcD)
Umesh Raichada (UR)
Alan Carter (AC
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Head
Teachers
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Sylvie Libson – Vice
Chair (SL)
Kay Johnson (KJ)
Lesley Benson (LB)
Matthew Lantos (ML)
Andy Prindiville
(AP)
Rose Ashton (RA)
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PRU
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Narinder Nathan (NN)
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PVI
Sector
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Lesley Gouldbourne
(LG
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Trade
Unions
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Lesley Gouldbourne
(LG)
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Others
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Sue Knowler (SK)
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Officers
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Sara Williams (SW)
Elizabeth Jones (EJ)
Norwena Thomas (NT)
Devbai Patel (DP)
Emily Ashton (EA)
Anis Robinson (AR)
Paula Buckley (PB)
Ceridwen John (CD)
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DISCUSSION
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ACTION
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MH opened the meeting at
6.05pm. He informed the Forum members
that Mustafa Salih has left the Council and thanked him for his
service over the past 5 years. SW
updated everyone on staffing changes.
SW informed the Forum members that EJ is currently the Assistant
Director of Finance for Adults, Social and Children and Families,
NT is the Interim Schools Finance Manager and DP continues in the
same post. MH thanked Mustafa Salih for
his service to schools over the past 5 years. MH asked everyone to introduce
themselves.
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Apologies
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Terry Molloy (TM)
Herman Martyn (HM)
Rabbi Yitzchak Freeman
(YF)
Cllr Helga Gladbaum (Cllr
HG)
Sabina Netty (SN)
John Voytal (JV)
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MH said YF and HM sent their
apologies to this Forum due to start of the Jewish festival of
Sukkos on the same evening. MH asked
that in future religious days are considered and to avoid arranging
Forums on these days. DP said that it
was not brought to her attention at the time of arranging Forums in
February and was not aware that the festivals commence at sunset
the day before although she was aware that it started on
19th September. This will be
noted in the future.
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Minutes of the meeting held on 19th June 2013 and
Matters Arising
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Accuracy
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2.1.1
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Paragraph 4.2 should say
‘opportunity’ not
‘inopportunity’.
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The above amendment was noted
and the minutes were approved as accurate record
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Matters Arising
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Schools Forum Membership – It
was requested at the last forum that a new model be created based
on 9 primary, 1 academy primary and 8 secondary
schools. DP said that the model is not
updated. This is because out of the
three academies that were due to convert only 1 has converted and
does not change the membership between phases, maintained and
academies. It will be recalculated once
these one or two schools convert. DP
also thought it would be ideal to update at the start of the year
in June as there is a likelihood of more schools
converting. MH asked if the calculation
will be separated between converting and sponsored academies to
which DP said this can be done. ML said
this would not make any difference. GB
said the only time it ...
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