Agenda and minutes
Education and Children's Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee - Wednesday 29 May 2019 2.00 pm
Venue: Warspite Room, Council House
Contact: Helen Rickman, Democratic Support Officer
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To Note the Appointment of the Chair and Vice Chair The Committee will be asked to note the appointment of the Chair and Vice Chair for the forthcoming municipal year 2019/ 2020. Additional documents: Minutes: The Committee noted the appointment of Councillor Mrs Johnson as Chair and Councillor Murphy as Vice Chair for the forthcoming municipal year 2019/ 2020. |
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Declarations of Interest Councillors will be asked to make any declarations of interest in respect of items on the agenda. Additional documents: Minutes: The following declarations of interest were made by Members in accordance with the code of conduct:
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To confirm the minutes of the previous meeting held on 13 March 2019. Additional documents: Minutes: Members agreed the minutes of the meeting held on 13 March 2019 as an accurate record. |
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Chair's Urgent Business To receive reports on business which in the opinion of the Chair, should be brought forward for urgent consideration. Additional documents: Minutes: Under this item the Chair thanked Councillor Mrs Beer for her work in chairing the Education and Children’s Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel for the municipal year 2018/2019. Councillor Murphy as Vice Chair for the previous year was also thanked for her work and for returning to the committee as Vice Chair for 2019/2020. |
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Additional documents: Minutes: Under this item the Chair highlighted to Members the creation of the new Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee and drew attention to the specific terms of reference for the Education and Children’s Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
Members noted the terms of reference document. |
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Co-opted Representative Update (verbal) Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair, Councillor Mrs Johnson, advised Members that the Panel had been approached in the previous municipal year by an individual wanting to be co-opted onto the panel. The Chair advised that the following questions were posed with the expectation that responses would be discussed by Members at the meeting:
1. Reasons why you are interested in the role; 2. A brief description of your background; 3. What skills and experience you could bring to the panel; 4. What you hope to get out of the position, is successful;
The Chair advised Members that in response to the questions it was highlighted that the individual worked with the Plymouth Parent Carer Voice, had worked with supporting families over 10 years and had a variety of experience in this role, worked for PIAS for 5 years and aimed to bring a voice for parents, carers, young carers and those with SEND to the scrutiny panel.
Members discussed the following:
Agreed that a report would be submitted to a future Education and Children’s Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel detailing the statutory responsibilities (where relevant) and clarifying the position regarding co-opted representatives on the panel. |
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Overview of Children's Directorate - Presentation PDF 557 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Neelam Bhardwaja (Service Director for Children, Young People and Families), Judith Harwood (Service Director for Education, Participation and Skills) and Jo Siney (Head of Special Educational Needs and Disability) provided an overview of the children’s directorate – a copy of the presentation was attached to the main agenda pack.
Neelam highlighted the following key points to Members:
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Draft Work Programme PDF 131 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Members discussed the draft work programme as set out in the agenda and agreed the allocation of dates to items as follows:
10 July 2019 meeting:
· Elective Home Education (to include rise and reasons. What are the drivers?) · Bullying and Attendance/code of conduct (to include consideration of cyber bulling) · Early Help Offer and plans for development (to include Commissioning and CAMHS developments) · Care Leavers and NEET – plan · Post 18 Education (to present the government review findings and provide a perspective on HEI in the City)
11 September 2019
· Child Exploitation (to include a progress report on Together for Childhood) · Plymouth Challenge update (a progress report)
13 November 2019
· Budget Monitoring (to include areas of pressure) · Young Carers · STEM refresh of plan (to provide a retrospective and looking forwards approach with the STEM plan.
8 January 2020
· Report on PAUSE project
Transition to Adulthood – not yet allocated a date.
Under this item is was also agreed that the data book for children’s’ and pupils’ education performance for 2018 would be provided to Members. |
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Tracking Resolutions PDF 32 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Members noted the tracking resolutions document. |