Issue - meetings

The appendices to this report are contained in the private and confidential section of this agenda.

Received a report from the Cabinet Member for Children and Education on the selection of a preferred bidder for the operational management of a Secondary School at Barking Riverside.

The intention is to provide a mainstream Secondary School from 1 September 2012 to provide places for 1,500 boys and girls for Years 7 to 11, 300 sixth form places together with specialist facilities providing places for 160 pupils with Special Educational Needs aged 3 to 19, although it was noted that funding and other issues may delay the delivery of the project by approximately one year.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council in achieving its Community Priority “Inspired and Successful” and in fulfilling its duty to provide every child in the Borough with a school place, to:-

(i)  Appoint the Barking and Dagenham Co-Operative Learning Partnership as preferred bidder for the operational management of the new Barking Riverside Secondary School with the following conditions, as provided for in the Department for Education (DfE) Guidance ‘Establishing a New Maintained Mainstream School’ Part C [Paragraph 94]:

a)  The lease of the site on which a new school is to be constructed;

b)  The entering into of an agreement for any necessary building project supported by the DfE in connection with grant funding from the former Building Schools for the Future programme; and

c)  These conditions being met by September 2013.