Issue - meetings

To adopt an amended work programme for 2023/24.

(i)     To accept the request from the Education Department for the Committee to consider programming an additional item and re-schedule some items that need to be scrutinised during 2023/24.

(ii)    To scrutinise the item on Additional Learning Needs in the mainstream and special schools at the meeting in March 2024.

(iii)   To adopt an amended work programme for 2023/24.

Submitted - the committee's forward programme for 2023/24.

The committee was asked to accept the request from the Education Department to consider programming an additional item and re-schedule some items that needed to be scrutinised during 2023/24, as detailed in the report.

It was noted that Additional Learning Needs in the mainstream and special schools had been denoted as a potential item for programming during the year, and calls were made for the item to be scrutinised in the March 2024 meeting in view of some of the comments that had arisen during the discussion on the Education Strategy (item 7 above).  In response, it was noted that it would be timely to scrutinise the item in March so that the scrutinisers' comments could be fed into any capital investment programme in the field in the future.

RESOLVED:

(i)        To accept the request from the Education Department to programme an additional item and re-schedule some items that needed to be scrutinised during 2023/24.

(ii)       To scrutinise the item on Additional Learning Needs in the mainstream and special schools at the meeting in March 2024.

(iii)      To adopt an amended work programme for 2023/24.