Issue - meetings

Report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education.

The Committee considered the report of the Executive Director of Children’s Social Care and Education presenting the Education Scorecard. The report provided an overview of the data.

The Education Scorecard was attached to the report and set out statistics on:

·       Pupil absence rate

·       Persistent absence rate

·       Pupil exclusions

·       Education, Health and Care Plans

·       Not in Employment, Education or Training

·       National and Sefton Language Data

·       Ofsted breakdown by schools

·       Early Years Foundations Profile

·       Phonics

·       Key Stage 1

·       Key Stage 2

·       Key Stage 4

Members of the Committee asked questions/commented on the following matters:

·       The drop in the number of requests for EHCP’s and the reasons for this

·       The fall in disadvantaged pupils at key stage 2 reaching the expected standard

·       The employment advice offered to 16–25-year-olds classed as not in employment or education.

RESOLVED:

(1)          That the data contained in the Education Scorecard be noted; and

(2)          That a briefing note on the reasons why EHCP’s are not approved be circulated to the Committee