FROM COUNCIL PRESS RELEASE
The new cross party forum set up to review the children and families estate has met for the first time. The group’s recommendations will be fed back to the Education, Children and Families Committee.
The initial meeting of the group considered its remit and also started looking at the criteria for reviewing the estate.
The membership of the group is:
Councillor Mrs MacLaren
Councillor Beckett
Councillor Balfour
Councillor Burns
Councillor Johnstone
Mr A C Duncan, Religious Representative
Mrs M Bryce-Stafford, Teaching Representative
Linda Anderton, Parent Representative (NS)
Lynda Flex, Parent Representative (SS)
Martin Southern, Parent Representative (PS)
The parent representatives will be ratified at the next meeting of the Consultative Committee with Parents
Commenting on the first meeting, that took place on 10 January, Gillian Tee, Director of Children and Families, said: “I am delighted that the first meeting of the Forum was productive and that we agreed a set of broad criteria to be used in evaluating the school estate. The criteria come under three main headings; educational outcomes, value for money and school rolls. It was also agreed that use of the criteria would be a guide and that the Forum would take account of wider qualitative information when detailed proposals are being discussed. I will be inviting key stakeholders to give their views at the next meeting of the Forum on 31 January.”
Joyce Nisbet, Client Manager, Children and Families, Corporate Services, 2/2 Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh EH8 8BG 0131 469 3134
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