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At its meeting on 4 July 2022 the committee approved the minutes of its January meeting and made two nominations: Councillor Tim Thomas as its Corporate Parenting Champion, and Councillor Richard Collins to the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel. It also agreed its draft forward work programme, which sets out the topics it will examine, adding new reports on school buildings and catchment areas and setting specific points for its September meeting on pupil attendance and safeguarding.
Some sentences of this summary are missing in English, because an older automatic check removed them from the English only. The Welsh version has them.
Councillor Melanie Evans declared a personal interest as a member of the Task Force for 21st Century Schools in her capacity as a Town councillor for Pencoed Town Council and as a School Governor for Croesty Primary School and Pencoed Comprehensive School. Councillor Elaine Winstanley declared a personal interested as her Employer sits on the Public Service Board.
RESOLVED: That the Minutes of a meeting of the Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 dated 20 January 2022 be approved as a true and accurate record.
Decision as recorded
RESOLVED: That Councillor Tim Thomas be nominated to represent Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 as an invitee to meetings of the Cabinet Committee Corporate Parenting.
The Scrutiny Officer presented the report which requested the Committee to nominate one Member as its Corporate Parenting Champion to represent the Committee as an invitee to meetings of the Cabinet Committee Corporate Parenting. The Chairperson invited nominations, following which it was: RESOLVED: That Councillor Tim Thomas be nominated to represent Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 as an invitee to meetings of the Cabinet Committee Corporate Parenting.
Councillors must say when they have a personal link to something being discussed, such as a job, a property or a family member. A prejudicial interest is one strong enough that the councillor usually leaves the room and takes no part.
Melanie Jayne Evans: Personal interest
Member of the Task Force for 21st Century Schools, as a town councillor for Pencoed Town Council, and as a school governor for Croesty Primary School and Pencoed Comprehensive School.
Elaine Winstanley: Personal interest
Her employer sits on the Public Service Board.
Decision as recorded
RESOLVED: That Councillor Richard Collins be nominated by Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 to sit on the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel.
The Scrutiny Officer presented the report, which requested the Committee to nominate one Member to sit on the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel. The Chairperson invited nominations, following which it was: RESOLVED: That Councillor Richard Collins be nominated by Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committee 1 to sit on the Public Service Board Scrutiny Panel.
Decision as recorded
RESOLVED: That the Committee considered and agreed the proposed draft outline Forward Work Programme in Appendix A, subject to the inclusion of the above requested reports and invitees and noted that the Forward Work Programmes for the Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committees would be reported to a meeting of COSC, following the next cycle of SOSC meetings.
The Senior Democratic Services Officer – Scrutiny presented the Committee with the proposed draft outline Forward Work Programme (FWP) in (Appendix A) for discussion and consideration, requested any specific information the Committee identified to be included in the items for the next two meetings, including invitees they wished to attend, requested the Committee to identify any further items for consideration on the Forward Work Programme having regard to the selection criteria in paragraph 4.6 and asked the Committee to note that the Forward Work Programme for the Committee would be reported to a meeting of COSC, following the July cycle of SOSC meetings. The Committee requested the following reports be added to the Forward Work Programme: • Upgrading of older school facilities that are not being replaced under School Modernisation and improving their energy efficiency in line with the 2030 Decarbonisation Agenda. • English Language Schools’ catchment areas / capacity. That with regard to the Pupil Attendance, Exclusions, Health and Safeguarding report scheduled for the meeting on 12 September, the Committee look at: • Pupil wellbeing from an attendance perspective and support in schools from Education Welfare Officers; • How the Free school meal programme is being rolled out in schools across the county borough. • What support schools are getting particularly for care experienced children and are there effective lines of communication between schools and social services support. · In relation to increased referrals to Information Advice and Assistance (IAA) within the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), the way in which referrals from schools to IAA are dealt with and the support in the team (and specifically requested representatives from IAA and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in relation to pupil attendance/safeguarding), for the September report. In addition, the Committee recommended: • Wellbeing be revisited within a suitable time frame to monitor progress and support. • Sight of the Corporate Management Dashboard for the Education Directorate on a quarterly basis at the appropriate time. • That Pupil Wellbeing be included and monitored as part of the Directorate Performance Dashboard in future. RESOLVED: That the Committee considered and agreed the proposed draft outline Forward Work Programme in Appendix A, subject to the inclusion of the above requested reports and invitees and noted that the Forward Work Programmes for the Subject Overview and Scrutiny Committees would be reported to a meeting of COSC, following the next cycle of SOSC meetings.
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