Decision details

The Cabinet Member with the Children and Young People Portfolio introduced the report of the Director of Children and Adults Services (previously circulated) requesting that consideration be given to the school term date arrangements (also previously circulated) for Darlington maintained schools for the academic year 2021/22, and to publishing those arrangements by the end of July 2019.

The submitted report stated that 42 schools within Darlington, and their respective Governing Bodies, had been consulted on the proposed school term dates for the 2021/22 Academic Year and outlined the responses to that consultation.

Discussion ensued on the number of schools that responded to the consultation; to the school term dates in North Yorkshire and County Durham; and to the possibility of undertaking further consultation in order to ensure dates were co-ordinated.

RESOLVED – That the proposed school term dates for Darlington maintained schools for the academic year 2021/22, as appended to the submitted report, be agreed for publication.

REASON - The draft dates are the ones preferred by the majority of schools and Governing Bodies that responded to the consultation, which ended on 24 May 2019.