Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to approve the revocation of its decision by Minute 20/12/13 relating to the proposed amalgamation of the infant and junior schools

Further to Minutes 20 and 24 (11 and 24 July 2012), the Cabinet Member for Children’s Services introduced a report setting out the formal steps required to no longer implement the proposed amalgamation of William Ford Church of England Junior School and Village Infant School and to maintain the current, separate status of the schools.

Cabinet agreed:

  (i)  That there be no duty to implement the changes agreed by Minute 11 of the Cabinet of 11 July 2012 in light of the decision by the William Ford Church of England Junior School Governing Body, at its meeting on 17 July 2012, not to proceed with the proposal to amalgamate William Ford Church of England Junior School and Village Infant School to become an all-through Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School with effect from 1 September 2012;

  (ii)  That the Governing Body of William Ford Church of England Junior School be relieved of its duty to implement the proposal to expand the age range of the William Ford Church of England Junior School;

 (iii)  That the Council be relieved of its duty to implement the proposal to close Village Infants School with effect from 1 September 2012; and

 (iv)  To note that the following two actions approved under Minute 11 were no longer necessary:

a.  the grant of a lease for a peppercorn rent of the amalgamated site together with the adjoining access road and school house, as shown on drawing number LBBD/GIS/002, to the Trustees of William Ford School for the purposes of ensuring that the through school can operate on one site;

b.  the delegated authority to the Corporate Director of Children Services, in consultation with the Corporate Director of Finance and Resources and the Divisional Director for Legal and Democratic Services to agree terms and conclude the necessary legal agreements to facilitate the merger of the two schools.