Minutes for Appeals Committee meeting, Feb 26 2009, 10.00AM official page

No apologies for absence were received.

RESOLVED:

That Councillor M. Fearn be appointed Chair for this meeting of the Committee.

Minutes of the meeting held on 30 January 2009.

RESOLVED:

That the Minutes of the meeting held on 30 January 2009 be confirmed as a correct record.

Members and Officers are requested to give notice of any personal or prejudicial interest and the nature of that interest, relating to any item on the agenda in accordance with the relevant Code of Conduct.

No declarations of interest were received.

To consider passing the following resolution:

That, under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph …. of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test has been applied and favours exclusion of the information from the Press and Public.

That under Section 100A(4) of the Local Government Act, 1972, the public be excluded from the meeting for the following items of business on the grounds that they involve the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Act.  The Public Interest Test had been applied and favoured exclusion of the information to the press and public.

Report of the Head of Support and Operations for Children’s Services

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Support and Operations on an appeal against the refusal to provide a travel pass.

RESOLVED:

That the appeal against the refusal to provide a travel pass be not allowed on the grounds that:

a)         there is no eligibility under the Authority’s published arrangements for reimbursing travelling expenses, in particular, because it is not more than three miles ‘walking distance’ from the pupil’s home to the school they attend, by the shortest available route;

(b)       there is no eligibility under the Authority’s published arrangements for reimbursing travelling expenses, in particular, because the pupil is not attending the nearest appropriate school; and

(c)        the personal reasons referred to in the appeal are not sufficiently exceptional to justify reimbursing travelling expenses.

Report of the Head of Support and Operations for Children’s Services

The Committee considered the report of the Head of Support and Operations on an appeal against the refusal to provide a travel pass.

RESOLVED:

That the appeal against the refusal to provide a travel pass be not allowed on the grounds that:

(a)       there is no eligibility under the Authority’s published arrangements for reimbursing travelling expenses, in particular, because it is not more than three miles ‘walking distance’ from the pupil’s home to the school they attend, by the shortest available route; and

(b)       the personal reasons referred to in the appeal are not sufficiently exceptional to justify reimbursing travelling expenses.