Issue - meetings

Drawdown of SEND Regional Leads Implementation Grant and Preparation for Employment Grant

Meeting: 08/07/2015 - Children, Education and Families Policy Development and Scrutiny Committee (Item 11)

11 Drawdown of Government Grant Funding to Support the Local Authority in its role as a London Regional Lead for the Implementation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Reforms from April 2015/16 PDF 181 KB

Additional documents:

Enc. 1 for Drawdown of Government Grant Funding to Support the Local Authority in its role as a London Regional Lead for the Implementation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Reforms from April 2015/16, item 11 PDF 98 KB

Minutes:

Report ED15100

The Committee considered a report seeking the approval of the Council’s Executive to release Government funding held in the Council’s central contingency to support the Local Authority in delivering its role as the 2015/16 Special Educational Needs and Disability Regional Lead for London in partnership with London Borough of Enfield.

It was requested that £61,924 be released from the Council’s central contingency to support partnership work with the London Borough of Enfield to build on previous Pathfinder Champion work by facilitating a peer special educational needs and disability learning approach, sharing best practice to support statutory compliance and the implementation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Reforms 2015/16 across the London region.

RESOLVED that the Council’s Executive be recommended to approve the drawdown of £61,924 Government funding from the Council’s central contingency to support the Local Authority in delivering its role as the 2015/16 Special Educational Needs and Disability Regional Lead for London in partnership with London Borough of Enfield.