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Performance Scrutiny Committee - People. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Service plan end-of-year reports 2023-24: Education and Children's Services
The minute records no vote. It records the Committee's comments and requests. The Committee asked for further information on the waiting times and the number of people on the waitlist for the Welsh language sabbatical offer. It asked for regular updates on progress at Millbrook and St Andrew's schools. It asked for a response on discussions about young people leaving the youth justice system early, and for an update on the Eliminate programme's funding and costs and on in-house care home provision. It welcomed the report on young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), alternative education and a traineeships pilot. It stressed the importance of engaging with young people and preventing negative outcomes.
Performance Scrutiny Committee - Place and Corporate. Scrutiny committees question decisions and can recommend changes. They don't make the decision.
Service plan end-of-year reports for 2023-24
After its questions, the Committee made these comments and recommendations: the report process should be clearer; project management should use an incremental approach, with clear objectives, timelines and outcomes for each phase; face-to-face exit interviews should be offered to leavers; reports should include specific figures and data instead of general phrases; face-to-face support should be kept and, where possible, expanded for people who cannot easily use online services; online tutorials and troubleshooting guides, including for booking forms, should be created and published; the Flexible Working Policy and how it applies to Members should be communicated and clarified; handheld devices or systems, and safety measures such as GPS tracking, emergency alerts or safety apps, should be explored for Members working in the community, with updates on these safety policies; and officers should explore telling Members what assets are in their wards and provide a comprehensive list of Council assets and their status.
Items are linked when their titles share most of their words and they fall within 18 months of each other. Councils don't number reports across meetings, so a few links may be wrong, and a step may be missing if its title changed a lot. Each step links to the meeting, where the council's own papers are.