RESOLUTION PASSED AT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Following lengthy discussion and careful consideration at an Extraordinary Meeting held on 20 June 2008, the CSRG General Committee recommended that the Group be dissolved.  The AGM, which took place on 4 July 2008, resolved to accept the recommendation.  The reasons for this decision are set out in the Joint Report of the CSRG’s Chair and Honorary Secretary for 2008.

While we deeply regret the closure of our Group after some 24 years of supporting local authority education and, more recently, children’s services, we are satisfied that in the much changed climate of today we have made the right decision.

Thanks to its successful programme of seminars CSRG is in a sound financial position.  In accordance with the terms of our constitution (paragraph 11) , the Committee plans to distribute CSRG funds as follows:

• We will firstly meet all outstanding liabilities.

• We will use a substantial amount to sponsor a forthcoming national seminar/conference organised by a like-minded group, on condition that it is aimed at children’s services practitioners and that every local authority will be offered at least one free or subsidised place at the event.

• We will retain a sufficient balance to ensure that we owe no monies by March 2009, when CSRG will be formally dissolved

• Any surplus money still remaining will then be donated to an organisation with similar aims and objectives to CSRG’s. 

• During the wind-down period the Committee has agreed to pay for the financial and administrative support necessary to ensure that the dissolution processes are carried out smoothly and professionally. 

All meeting minutes and financial statements will be published on the CSRG website until 30 September 2009, after which date the website will close.

Our warmest thanks go to all those who have generously given of their time to contribute to our work, especially the speakers at our workshops and seminars,
past Committee members, and colleagues of other research groups with whom we have been privileged to collaborate.  Lastly, we gratefully acknowledge the assistance we have always received from local authorities: the Group could not have existed without their support. 

CSRG General Committee
July 2008.

AGM