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Next steps of Academies
Meeting: 10/11/2010 - Children & Young People's Overview & Scrutiny Committee (Item 34)
Next steps of Academies
Presentation from Gil Sweetenham - Schools Futures Project Director.
Minutes:
34.1 Gil Sweetenham, School Futures Project Director, introduced the powerpoint handout and answered questions.
34.2 In answer to a question on the independence of academies from the local education authority (LEA), members were told that, although academies were independent of the LEA, the Council was committed to working as closely as possible with aspirant academies.
34.3 Members raised concerns that the governing bodies of academies might be disproportionately drawn from people with business backgrounds, rather than people with educational knowledge. The Committee was advised that the Department for Education (DfE) had protocols in place to ensure that the governing bodies of academies had the right balance of skills and their focus was on learning. If this wasn’t the case then the DfE would intervene.
34.4 RESOLVED- That the information within the handout was noted by the Committee.