Decision details

Committee to receive a paper regarding early education and childcare place planning.

The Head of Early Years was invited by the Chairman to introduce the item to the committee, which related to the planning for early education and childcare places.

Following discussion of the item the Chairman moved to the recommendations as laid out in the cover report, which were agreed by the committee.

The following was therefore RESOLVED:

1.    The Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding (CELS) Committee noted the progress in delivering early education and childcare places and the future requirements for places up to 2019/20;

2.    The Children, Education, Libraries and Safeguarding Committee noted the investment requirements set out in paragraph 5 of the report that will be considered as part of the Council’s business planning process to prepare the Council’s medium term financial strategy to be considered by the Policy and Resources Committee.