EDR05 Financial Savings 2024-2025 - Delivery of the Curriculum Quality and Improvement Service (CQIS)
| Title | EDR05 Financial Savings 2024-2025 - Delivery of the Curriculum Quality and Improvement Service (CQIS) |
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| Council Resource | Education |
| Aims and Objectives | This may impact on school improvement and inspection, literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing, parental engagement and involvement, attainment including qualification, digital learning and leadership development. The consequences of this saving will be a reduction in the resource available from officers to support schools and the services described above. Proposed measures include: • Reduction in supported study programme (£0.005m) • Recharge copyright licences to schools, currently paid for by CQIS. This is an essential service but the costs going forward will need to be met by schools from existing budgets. (£0.120m) • Remove funding to support Outdoor learning risk assessment (£0.010m) • Remove power language support to schools (£0.005) * • Remove support for career Academy (£0.002m) * • Recharge Scholar Programme (£0.040m) * This is a 1 year contracted service currently paid by CQIS which will need to be supported by schools from existing budgets in 2024/25 and will be removed permanently thereafter. (£0.040m) • Phase out consortium transport support (transport for Advanced Higher pupils) in favour of virtual academy (£0.003m) • Cost recovery for CPD, catering and lets associated with training events delivered by CQIS (£0.105m). • Remove 1 Mentoring post (£0.060) This is a total saving £0.350m; and a reduction of 1 FTE post. * These are optional services for schools, and should they wish to continue, schools will need to fund directly from devolved budgets which are also subject to a saving in this pack. The post would need to be removed from the service from April 2024 to achieve these proposals. This is a post is a grade 3 level 8 (non-teaching post). |
| Conclusion | The conclusion of this impact assessment is that this savings proposal will negatively impact children and young people. It will have a negative impact on young people across the secondary sector as it will reduce the supported study programme across the secondary sector and reduce pupil access to wider educational opportunities, particularly those young people residing in rural areas. It will also result in the phasing out of transport for Advanced Higher pupils who access learning through other educational establishments. It will also impact across primary and secondary schools as the saving will have a knock-on effect on school budgets - particularly in respect of copyright licencing, outdoor learning risk assessments, support for power language, career academy and scholar. Should schools wish to continue with this provision, they will need to fund it themselves. Approved by Council on 21 February 2024. |
| Completion date | 21 February 2024. |
| Contact Email address | equalities@southlanarkshire.gov.uk |