Committee details
Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Children's Services and Safeguarding)
Purpose of committee
The role of the Committee is to fulfil all the functions of an Overview and Scrutiny Committee as they relate to Children’s Services and Safeguarding and to review and make recommendations for improvement in relation to the following functions:
• School Improvement • Children’s Centre’s • Special Educational Needs • Early Years • Early Help – Schools • Statutory Local Education Authority functions • Education Welfare • Safeguarding • Children with Disabilities • Looked after Children • Fostering and Adoptions • Family Support Pathway • Targeted Family Support • Youth Offending Team • Post 14 Education.
Further details are set out in Chapter 6 of the Council Constitution.
Membership
- Cllr. Judy Hardman (Chair)
- Cllr. Natasha Carlin (Vice-Chair)
- Cllr. Danny Burns
- Cllr. Clare Carragher
- Cllr. Leo Evans
- Cllr. Christine Howard
- Cllr. Christopher Page
- Cllr. Mike Prendergast
- Cllr. Carol Richards
- Cllr. Tom Spring
- Cllr. Peter Harvey (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Paul Tweed (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Greg Myers (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Jennifer Corcoran (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Gareth Lloyd-Johnson (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Phil Hart (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. John Joseph Kelly (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Tony Brough (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. Steve McGinnity (Substitute Member)
- Cllr. John Kelly (Substitute Member)
- Maurice Byrne, Healthwatch
- Mrs Sandra Cain, Independent Advisory Member
- Karen Christie, Healthwatch
- Stuart Harrison, Diocese
- Joan McCarthy, Archdiocese
- Cheryl Swainbank, PGR
Contact information
Support officer: Debbie Campbell. Senior Democratic Services Officer
Postal address:
Democratic Services
Town Hall
Trinity Road
Bootle
L20 7AE
Phone: 0151 934 2254
Email: debbie.campbell@sefton.gov.uk