February 11, 2011, 12:48
On Tuesday the Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board met with the Cabinet Member for Social Services to question him on his report on alternative models of service delivery for adult social care. The Cabinet Member was due to take a report to Cabinet on Thursday which sought approval from Cabinet to proceed with [...]
January 13, 2011, 10:54
The Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board met yesterday to discuss how adult social care is to be remodelled to deliver more “person centred” services. The Welsh Assembly Government’s Fulfilled Lives, Supportive Communities 2007 says of services: Whatever their difficulty or impairment, people should be supported to have control over the life [...]
September 20, 2010, 10:27
At their meeting last week, the Children, Young People & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board spoke to Head Teachers and Chair’s of Governors from four Swansea schools about their ESTYN inspection reports. As I’m sure you know, every school gets inspected by ESTYN and, following the inspection, a report is published and an action plan is produced [...]
August 18, 2010, 14:59
The Corporate Parenting Task & Finish Group (set up by the Child & Family Servicse Overview & Scrutiny Board) met yesterday . The group discussed the results of the corporate parenting surevy that was sent to all councillors, it looked at how other local authority scrutiny boards have delved into the subject of corporate parenting & it looked at practical examples gleaned from elsewhere of [...]
June 14, 2010, 14:18
Today the Children, Young People and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board met to consider their work plan for the year. To provide the context for this they had a highly informative presentation which was given jointly by Richard Parry, the Corporate Director (Education), Cllr Mary Jones, Lead Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, and Cllr [...]