Decision details

RESOLVED: (Unanimous)

The Skills and Employment Committee resolved to:

A.    Note Grant Thornton’s independent Feasibility Report and accompanying papers, into FE Cold-Spots in East Cambridgeshire and St Neots

B.    Recommend that the Combined Authority Board accepts the proposal to create an Investment and Implementation Plan including a call for skills capital projects, with investment into skills capital in existing FE providers around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough funded from the remaining FE coldspots budget (set out in paragraph 5.1).

C.    Recommend that the Combined Authority delegate authority to the Assistant Director of Skills and Employment to develop the criteria within the proposed Investment and Implementation Plan.

D.    To note that a progress report will be brought to a future Skills and Employment Committee.