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Local Authority Contain Outbreak Management Fund allocation to Tackling Disadvantage across the Local Education System

19/01/2023 - Local Authority Contain Outbreak Management Fund allocation to Tackling Disadvantage across the Local Education System

Having consulted with the Leader (in his capacity as portfolio holder for Public Health and Communities) and the Executive Director for Corporate Resources in accordance with a decision taken by Cabinet on 27th January 2021:

 

DECISION

 

To allocate £175,000 from the Local Authority Contain Outbreak Management Fund to initiatives aimed at reducing educational disadvantage. 

 

Such funding shall be managed through  the Gloucestershire Education Forum who shall seek to galvanise the capacity and expertise of systems leaders in the local education system (namely, school leaders in maintained schools and academy/Multi-academy Trust schools) during the period January 2023 – December 2023.by encouraging them to them work with the council and a national school improvement expert to lead cross-system workstreams that will endeavour to reduce educational disadvantage.