Issue - meetings

To consider any actions arising from previous meetings.

·       Action Point 82. -  The Forum required further clarification to be sought on the issue of Brent teaching staff being paid an inner London salary despite Brent being funded at an outer London scale. Officers advised that this had been a historical decision to attract teaching staff in to the borough, however acknowledged the financial challenges this raised for schools in the current economic climate. Officers agreed to raise the disparity in funding with the DfE and update the Schools Forum when a response had been received.

·       Action Point 83 - The Forum requested to see the criteria that schools were required to meet in order to request support from the Schools Facing Financial Difficulties Fund (SFFD).

·       Action Point 84 – The Forum required a future report that illustrates the tracking of the redundancy costs requested and the savings those schools struggling financially have achieved as a result of the support received from the redundancy pot to support monitoring the benefits of having a redundancy pot.

·       Action 85 – The Forum requested further information at a future meeting detailing data on the distribution of additional funding awarded by the Early Years Panel.

Action Point 82: The Forum was advised that an update in relation to the Council seeking further information from the DfE regarding the disparity in funding received from the DfE to support the inner London salary that Brent teaching staff were paid on was addressed in Item 6 - Dedicated Schools Grant Schools Budget 2023/24 report.

Action Point 83: The Forum was advised that an update in relation to the application criteria for schools to access the Schools Facing Financial Difficulties Fund (SFFD) was addressed in Item 6 - Dedicated Schools Grant Schools Budget 2023/24 report.

Action Point 84: The Forum was advised that an update would be provided at a future meeting on the action to provide a report to illustrate the tracking of the redundancy costs in relation to the savings schools had made.

Action Point 85 The Forum was advised that an update would be provided at a future meeting in relation to the Committee request to receive further data on the distribution of additional funding awarded by the Early Years Panel.