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Contact: Paul Mountford Democratic Services Officer
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Apologies for Absence Minutes: No apologies were received.
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Declarations of Interest To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests in any item on the agenda. Minutes: No declarations of interest were made. |
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Public Speaking Time/Open Session In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.
Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.
Minutes: There were no members of the public present. |
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To make an annual determination in respect of the Local Education Authority’s powers to make awards to students. Minutes: The Local Education Authority (Post Compulsory Education Awards) Regulations 1999 required LEAs to make an annual determination in respect of their powers to make awards to students. The determination had to be made before the start of the following financial year. The requirement to make an annual determination applied regardless of whether an LA had previously determined that it would not exercise its powers to offer awards.
The Council had already determined not to exercise the power to offer discretionary awards for the 2010/11 academic year. No financial provision had been made to make discretionary awards in the 2011/2012 academic year either for a specific category or on appeal.
The effect on applicants had remained unchanged since 2000/01 when Cheshire County Council first decided not to take up the discretionary powers and no new awards had been made since then. No discretionary awards have been made since the academic year 2003/4 when existing students already in receipt of an award were funded from a residual fund to allow them to complete their course.
RESOLVED:
That the Council does not take up the power to grant discretionary awards for the 2011/2012 academic year. |