Remit
The Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee (RS) has lead responsibility for all issues relating to:
- National and local organisation of children’s services
- Funding (capital and revenue) of children’s services, including of schools
- School admissions, place planning and home to school transport
- Strategic planning and commissioning
- The overall use of resources and sustainability.
The Committee liaises closely with the Educational Achievement Policy Committee on admissions, capital funding and strategic place planning. Members of the Committee represent the Association on various reference groups organised by the Department for Education, including the Service Working Group on Education and Children’s Services (SWEGECS) the Schools Funding Implementation Group (SFIG), and the EFA Advisory Group.
Meeting Dates
- 13 Jan 2021
- 2 March 2021
- 7 May 2021
- 8 Sept 2021
- 17 Nov 2021
Contacts
Chair: Matt Dunkley CBE, Corporate Director – Children, Young People and Education, Kent County Council. To contact Matt, email Matt.Dunkley@kent.gov.uk
ADCS Policy Officer: Esther Kavanagh Dixon supports the work of the committee. To contact Esther, email esther@adcs.org.uk
Resources & Sustainability Policy Committee Articles
Competition and Markets Authority children’s social care market study....
In General Funding
ADCS response to the admissions code consultation
In Education & Schools
ADCS submission to the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review
In General Funding
Matt Dunkley comments on IFS research on Covid-19 and council funding
In General Funding
Government announce new Covid-19 funding package for councils
In General Funding
ADCS respond to children’s charities’ report on children and young...
In General Funding
Jenny Coles responds to the Budget 2020 announcement
In General Funding
Jenny Coles comments on new analysis by the LGA children’s social...
In General Funding
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In Leadership
I first became a DCS in 2005, which equates to the Paleolithic Age in DCS...
In Leadership
ADCS responds to the State of Local Government Finance Survey 2020
In General Funding
Resources & Sustainability and the Standards, Performance &...
In General
Rachel Dickinson responds to the Education Select Committee’s SEND...
In General
ADCS submission to the schools national funding formula consultation
In General Funding
10 Facts You Need to Know About the Department for Education’s Finances...
In General Funding
Letter to the Secretary of State for Education regarding the Education...
In General Funding
ADCS response to the new national funding formula for schools