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To enable Cabinet to give consideration to a comment made to it by the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee in respect of the above.

That Cabinet recognises the importance of key worker housing in support of teacher recruitment and also for other professions and asks Officers to engage with the relevant agencies to support the delivery of key worker housing where possible.

Cabinet was informed that, at the meeting of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee held on 22 May 2017, Essex County Council’s Lead Commissioner for SES Project Work (Graham Lancaster) had attended and had given that Committee a presentation on Teacher Recruitment and Retention. The presentation had covered the following:-

• The National picture;
• Particular challenges in Essex;
• Retention strategies;
• Recruitment;
• What TDC may be able to do;
• The performance of Essex Schools; and
• Continuing priorities.

Mr Lancaster had stressed that the one area where TDC could make a contribution towards teacher recruitment was in the provision of Key Worker Housing. The Council’s Head of People, Performance and Projects (Anastasia Simpson) informed Members that the identification of Key Worker Housing was now included in the draft Local Plan.

The Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee had decided to comment to Cabinet that it would like to stress how important Key Worker Housing was and that the issues and concerns in relation to this should be treated as a key priority.

Having considered the comment of the Community Leadership and Partnerships Committee:

It was moved by Councillor McWilliams, seconded by Councillor G V Guglielmi and:

RESOLVED that Cabinet recognises the importance of key worker housing in support of teacher recruitment and also for other professions and asks Officers to engage with the relevant agencies to support the delivery of key worker housing where possible.