A question submitted to the Isle of Wight Executive (formerly known as the Cabinet) for next week’s meeting, queries the local authority’s level of support for Cowes Enterprise College.
Former Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel member, Dave Miller, writes,
The continued delays in specifying, tendering, and completing the extensive remaining works might appear to be impacting the College’s cited ‘journey of rapid improvement’.
Significant parental comments have also been made regarding the proposed staff reductions due to budgetary management, and the twice-delayed proposed date for transfer of the college to Ormiston Academy Trust might also appear to be influenced by contributory building issues, noting that Paper F (embedded below) cites ‘some issues related to the overall design and the ability to deliver an appropriate learning environment’, and issues that ‘might potentially impact on attainment’.
He goes on to ask
From recent OFSTED data, it is noted that approximately three quarters of schools that exited Special Measures last academic year did so with three or fewer monitoring visits. Cowes Enterprise College’s fourth visit was in March 2014, and the outcome is awaited.
In addition to encouraging prompt and comprehensive resolution for the benefit of students, could the responsible executive member comment on the level of LA support provided, and accepted impact upon educational provision, in the context of the building programme fiasco that the Education Funding Agency (EFA) attributed to the LA, noting that previous officers and the governing body were exonerated?
Dave Miller’s question
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Paper F
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