Decision Maker: Formartine Area Committee

Outcome: Approve

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Date of Decision: March 4, 2025

Purpose: To prevent Foveran School from exceeding capacity and ensuring that the school can still deliver education to all current pupils, a limit needs to be placed upon the overall pupil numbers.

Content: The Committee provided the following comments: a)    The comments made in relation to Item 8 should be taken into consideration, b)    It would be helpful for ECS to have insight into how many parents preferred the different proposals, hearing from both Foveran and Tipperty parents, as well as the wider community, c)    Call-in by the Scottish Government, in respect of the merger proposal, should not be in our consideration, d)    There needs to be more information about the soft capping proposals first, e)    If capping is the preferred option, we still have an issue for families being split.   The Committee agreed, subject to the comments that have been made, to receive a further report back to the Formartine Area Committee, following the consideration and decision of ECS and Full Council.  Members should also receive informal annual updates.