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Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
School Transport
AGREED – (i) That Executive Board be recommended to review the post-16 transport policy, taking on board the cost of living pressures; to encourage the progression of learners from Key Stage 4 to further education; and the commitment the Executive Board have made to the Welsh in Education Strategic Plan. (ii) That Officers involve representatives of Wrexham VIth form schools in discussions to consider more immediate measures that can be undertaken to support post-16 learners such as grant funding of £30 per week for eFSM pupils and the promotion of reduced public transport travel fares. (ii…
Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
School Transport
AGREED – (i) To recommend to the Executive Board that some preparatory work is undertaken on the review of post-16 transport, prior to the outcome of the Welsh Government review of the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008. (ii) To seek further advice regarding the impact of the Executive Board decision in respect of post-16 transport on the scrutiny function. (iii) That, subject to the above, a further report is submitted to the September/October meeting of the Committee to consider the Flintshire policy regarding the transport for post-16 pupils, whether it differentiates between school six…
Executive Board. The Cabinet makes most of the council's decisions.
School Transport
RESOLVED – (i) That the report presented by Councillor Carrie Harper, in her capacity as Chair for the Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee, be welcomed, and the Committee Members be thanked for the work undertaken to date on this topic. (ii) That the Welsh Government’s commitment to undertake a wholesale review of the Learner Travel (Wales) Measure 2008 be noted and that Officers be recommended to await the publication of the wider national Policy Review prior to any further work being undertaken on the matter of Post-16 School Transport. (iii) That Welsh Government be asked to confirm the…
Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
School Transport - Budget Pressures
AGREED – That a further report be submitted to the meeting in May 2024 to include the following: · Details of the revenue budget outturn position in respect of school transport · Further details of improvements in the school transport budget forecasting arrangements
Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
School Transport Update
AGREED – To consider a further report on the actions being undertaken to address the budget pressures on the school transport budget when progress information is available on the following areas, with an interim update being submitted to the meeting in October 2024: (a) Progress on the following next steps identified in paragraph 4.15 of Report COET/19/24 – - Spend to save process which will require the procurement of traffic data on WCBC’s most costly school hazardous routes. - Re-assessment of the current main hazardous routes which the local authority consider for walking journeys to sch…
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