The report of the Chief Executive was submitted.

Resolved that

(1)         a Committee of Cabinet be formed, to be known as the ‘BSF Cabinet Committee’, be formed, the members of that Committee being:

·        Cabinet Member for Children and Young People (Chair)

·        Cabinet Member for Budget and Resources

·        Cabinet Member for Safer and Stronger Communities

and that the Committee be asked to invite the Shadow Cabinet Member for Children and Young People and Councillor David Stark to attend Committee meetings as observers:  it be noted that the Cabinet Procedure Rules will apply to the Committee;

(2)         the Leader delegates all executive functions relating to the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Project (including without limitation the monitoring of the Services for Children and Young People Capital investment) to that BSF Cabinet Committee, with the exception of decisions relating to the constitution of the BSF Cabinet Committee, the services to be provided by the Local Education Partnership and the contract award, each of which the Leader delegates to Cabinet;

(3)         the terms of reference and other provisions relating to that BSF Cabinet Committee, and the other arrangements for governance of the BSF Project, in each case as set out in Appendices 1 and 2, be approved and the Committee be requested to ensure appropriate sub-delegation, broadly in line with those arrangements;

(4)         the BSF Cabinet Committee, the BSF Project Executive, the BSF Project Team and the delegations to the Project Owner and Project Director be automatically terminated in the event that the Council does not achieve a ‘Remit’ meeting (project inception, as defined by Partnership for Schools processes) and accordingly it be requested that all delegations from the Committee to the Project Owner and from the Project Owner to the Project Director be made on that basis.