Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director of Secretariat

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The Committee is recommended to note the report as background to its question and answer session with the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture.

6.1  The Committee received the report of the Executive Director of Secretariat. Jennette Arnold AM and Andrew Boff AM declared non-pecuniary interests in this item, as detailed at Minute 2.1(b).

6.2  Munira Mirza, Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture, and Amanda Coyle, Assistant Director of Health and Communities were in attendance for this item.

6.3  A transcript of this discussion is attached at Appendix 2.

6.4  During the course of the discussion, the Committee asked that the following additional information be provided:

·  The criteria for and details of the sale of the sites on the GLA estate identified by the Mayor for school development;

·  The number of looked after children that had been given priority for apprenticeships, mentoring, work experience and job opportunities through the Mayor’s programme;

·  Details of what work the Mayor had carried out in terms of apprenticeships and encouraging employers to take on more young people to work, specifically in relation to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic graduates;

·  Details of the GLA’s delivery plan, when available, for undertaking the report recommendations; and

·  An explanation of whether, in making its contribution to the London Schools Excellence Fund, the Department for Education had re-allocated funds from an existing budget or taken the funds from a new budget.

6.5  It was also suggested that once the criteria for awarding the Gold Club status to schools had been decided, the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture would attend the next appropriate GLA Oversight Committee meeting to discuss in more detail.

6.6     Resolved

That, subject to the comments raised in the meeting and recorded above, the report and discussion be noted.