Issue - meetings

Procurement Strategy to commission an external provider for delivery of Alternative Provision School Places in Hammersmith and Fulham

Meeting: 11/05/2020 - Cabinet (Item 8)

8 Procurement Strategy to commission an external provider for delivery of Alternative Provision School Places in Hammersmith and Fulham PDF 618 KB

This report has one appendix which contain information exempt within the meaning of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and is not for publication. The appendix has therefore been circulated to Cabinet Members only.

Any discussions on the contents of an exempt appendix will require Cabinet to pass the proposed resolution identified at the end of the agenda to exclude members of the public and the press from the proceedings for that discussion.

Additional documents:

Appendix 1 Procurement strategy, item 8 PDF 431 KB
Appendix 2 SLA, item 8 PDF 685 KB
Exempt Appendix 3 , View reasons restricted (8/4)
Exempt Appendix 4 - exempt implications , View reasons restricted (8/5)

Minutes:

Councillor Culhane stated that the Council had a statutory responsibility to ensure that there was an adequate supply of good quality Alternative Provision (AP) and that all children and young people of compulsory school age would have access to a school or a form of Alternative Provision. This included offering a broad range of support, including short-term intervention for pupils at risk of exclusion and full-time/longer-term placements as an alternative to permanent exclusion. He thanked the secondary school Headteachers in the borough for working together with the Council on this report.

Councillor Coleman praised the report and the additional benefits it would bring by creating new jobs and serving the community, as well as taking into account environmental issues.

The Leader thanked Councillor Culhane, Jan Parnell, Assistant Director of Education, and Gary Kynaston, Headteacher of Hammersmith Academy, for their involvement on this report, which would significantly improve the service provided.

AGREED UNANIMOUSLY BY CABINET:

That Cabinet:

1. Notes that Appendices 3 and 4 are not for publication on the basis that they contain information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) as set out in paragraph 3 or information in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings under paragraph 5 of Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act 1972 (as amended).

2. Approves the Procurement Strategy as set out in Appendix 1.

3. Approves the award of the Alternative Provision services contract to TBAP Multi-Academy Trust for the period of 1^st June 2020 until 31^st August 2022 for the total of £6,313,311.