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Work Programme Key Decision Forward Plan

 

 

Meeting: 07/11/2022 - Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Children's Services and Safeguarding) (Item 29)

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Report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer

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Minutes:

The Committee considered the report of the Chief Legal and Democratic Officer seeking:

 

·       to review the Committee’s Work Programme for the remainder of the Municipal Year 2022/23;

·       to note the progress of the Impact of Covid 19 on the Primary Curriculum Working Group;

·       the views of the Committee on the re-establishment of the Secondary School Performance and Attainment Working Group;

·       the views of the Committee on the review of health services for children in Sefton;

·       to note the progress of informal briefing sessions for Committee Members to be held during 2022/23, and the intention to hold an informal briefing on the Leeds Family Values in due course;

·       to note the intention to hold a site visit for Committee Members to meet with Children’s Services Teams at Magdalen House, Bootle, in due course;

·       to note that there were no items for pre-scrutiny by the Committee from the latest Key Decision Forward Plan;

·       to receive an update on the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Overview and Scrutiny Committee;

·       to formally approve the nomination for a new Parent Governor Representative to sit on the Committee; and

·       to formally approve the nomination of a new a new Archdiocese Representative to sit on the Committee and to thank the retiring Archdiocese Representative for their service on the Committee.

 

Appendix A to the report set out the Committee’s Work Programme for 2022/23; and Appendix B set out the Criteria Checklist for Selecting Topics for Review.

 

Members of the Committee asked questions/raised matters on the following issues:

 

·       the potential re-establishment of the Secondary School Performance and Attainment Working Group

·       the review of health services for children in Sefton

 

RESOLVED:

 

(1)

the Work Programme for 2022/23, as set out at Appendix A to the report be agreed;

 

(2)

progress of the Impact of Covid 19 on the Primary Curriculum Working Group be noted;

 

(3)

further consideration be given to the re-establishment of the Secondary School Performance and Attainment Working Group once the Committee has considered the report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education providing information on the up- to-date test and examination data (Minute No 23 (2) refers);

 

(4)

the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health be requested to submit a report providing details/reviewing health services for children in Sefton; and thereafter the Committee give further consideration to holding an informal meeting to consider the matter in more detail;

 

(5)

the progress of informal briefing sessions for Committee Members to be held during 2022/23 and the arrangements made to hold an informal briefing session on the Leeds Family Values, to be held at 4.00 p.m. on 21 November 2022, be noted;

 

(6)

the arrangements being made to hold a site visit for Committee Members to meet with Children’s Services Teams at Magdalen House, Bootle, at 2.00 p.m. on 23 November 2022, be noted;

 

(7)

the fact that there are no items for pre-scrutiny from the Key Decision Forward Plan that fall under the remit of the Committee, on this occasion, be noted;  ...  view the full minutes text for item 29