Swansea Scrutiny

Archive for the ‘Partnership Overview & Scrutiny’ Category.

Hafod Primary School – Partnership Working in Practice

Councillors from the Partnership Overview and Scrutiny Committee visited Hafod Primary School earlier this week. The purpose of the visit was to follow up their scrutiny of Swansea Local Service Board. Specifically the idea was to test some of the things they had been told about the Local Service Board’s Prevention and Early Intervention Programme by [...]

Swansea Local Service Board – Making a Difference for Children and Young People?

Last Monday the Partnership Overview and Scrutiny Committee had a presentation on the Prevention and Early Intervention Programme which is one of Swansea Local Service Board’s four projects. The presentation was the second step in the Committee’s ongoing evaluation of whether Swansea Local Service Board is making a difference.  I have blogged before on the Committee’s first [...]

Swansea Local Service Board – What Difference Does it Make?

Earlier this week the Partnership Overview & Scrutiny Committee had a close look at Swansea’s Local Service Board.  They were particularly keen to find out what difference it makes and had asked for two presentations to help them find out. This is the first one, given by yours truly, that tried to set the scene with [...]

Learning from the Swansea Youth Offender Service

Yesterday the Partnership Overview and Scrutiny Committee had a presentation from Eddie Isles, the Youth Offending Team Manager, on how the Youth Offending Service works in Swansea. In case you don’t know, here is the service in a nutshell: Swansea Youth Offending Service is a multi-agency approach to youth offending. The staff group comprises of social workers, [...]

How Can We Make Swansea Safer?

Today the Partnership Overview & Scrutiny Committee met to have a look at a draft of the Safer Swansea Strategy. As you might know, the Safer Swansea Strategy sets out how the police, council and many other partners will work together to reduce crime and anti social behaviour and improve community safety.  The body that brings all [...]