Issue - meetings

Received a report setting out a requirement for local authorities to confirm to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) their intention to passport the full amount of Formula Spending Share, as specified by the DfES, to the Schools Block for 2004 / 2005, and take up the full allocation of 2004 / 2005 Standards Fund grant by 31 December 2003.

Agreed, that the Director of Education, Arts and Libraries informs the DfES that Barking and Dagenham Council intends to passport the required increase in schools’ funding of £5.97m in full to the Schools Block, and to take up in full the Standards Fund grant allocation for 2004 / 2005.