Meeting Details

• The forced academisation of all schools in Nottinghamshire

• Removing the requirement to have parent and staff governors which means removing the right to have community representation on Governing Bodies

• The end of university based routes to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

• The proposals cited above are the wrong priorities.  The Government should be focussing on issues such as the crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, rising class sizes and ensuring there are enough school places for all pupils

• These proposals are a threat to local democracy, education provision and to staff terms and conditions

• These proposals will leave this Council with duties to schools, parents, children and young people (including those who are vulnerable and those who have special educational needs) which it  will no longer have the funding to enact  

• Actively oppose the proposals

• Support a national campaign to reject the proposals

• Start a Nottinghamshire wide petition against the proposals, working with head teachers, teachers, members of school staff, parents and governors

• Inform the Secretary of State for Education that we are against all of the proposals above as they will have a detrimental effect on educational standards and community engagement in local schools across Nottinghamshire”

"This Council:-

a)  Recognises legitimate complaints from residents that the new registration process for access to Nottinghamshire Household Waste Recycling Centres is intrusive and wrong, because it collects too much personal information;

b)  Is concerned about the practical application and likely effectiveness and value of the HWRC access policy, including:-

• whether the use of hand held devices to check vehicle registration numbers will be effective;
• whether the use of hand held devices could cause inconvenience to the public, especially at the busiest sites;
• whether the recycling centre access scheme is sufficiently flexible to meet the needs of particular customers;
• whether the changes needed to provide more flexibility would make the scheme impossible to police in an effective way;

c)  In the light of these complaints and concerns, instructs the Labour administration to reconsider the HWRC registration policy and bring a new proposal to Full Council."

Councillor Richard Butler                    Councillor Roger Jackson

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(2)    The Chairman has agreed that the Council will adjourn for lunch at their discretion.

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(4)    Members are reminded that petitions can be presented from their seat with a 1 minute time limit set on introducing the petition.

(5)    Members attention is drawn to the question put to the Chairman of the Adult Social Care and Health Committee under paragraph 40 of the Procedure Rules, and the answer to which included in the back of the Council book.  Member's attention is also drawn to the questions put to the Chairmen of Children & Young People's Committee, Environment & Sustainability Committee and Transport & Highways Committee under paragraphs 32, 39 and 40 of the Procedure Rules, and the answers to which are included at the back of the Council book.

(6)    Members are reminded that these papers may be recycled.  Appropriate containers are located in the respective secretariats.

(7)    Commonly used points of order

        36 - Supplementary Questions must be on the same matter

        50 - The Member has spoken for more than 10 minutes

        52 - The Member is not speaking to the subject under discussion

        55 - The Member has already spoken on the motion

        60 - Points of Order and Personal Explanations

        79 - Disorderly conduct

(8)    Time limit of speeches

        Motions

        50 - no longer than 10 minutes (subject to any exceptions set out in the Constitution)

        Petitions

        27 - up to one minute allowed

        Questions to Committee Chairmen

        32 - up to 60 minutes allowed

        Adjournment Debates

        74 - Mover has up to 5 minutes

        75 - any other Councillor has up to 3 minutes

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