Date of meeting: 31 January 2022

The question will be answered without discussion. The person who asked the question may ask one relevant supplementary question, which shall be put and answered without discussion. The person to whom a question, or supplementary question, has been put may decline to answer it.

The following written question has been received

(1) Councillor Yates

Given the potential short-term and long-term implications of reducing PANs at schools built for (and within) relatively isolated local communities across the city which have poorer access to a range of alternatives and mitigations that other schools previously considered for reductions - what impact of these proposals has been assessed in relation to:

· Walking distance to alternative schools;

· The Council’s long term carbon reduction ambitions;

· Avoiding focusing PAN reductions on areas of multiple disadvantage;

· Protecting the long term delivery of specialist and targeted education within those schools;

· Ensuring educational outcomes are protected/ enhanced?