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The Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee, a group of councillors that reviews council services, agreed its 2026/27 work programme, adding reports on the Youth Work Offer, the Estyn inspection profile and a five-year Youth Work Strategy. It then heard from the Lead Member for Education (the councillor responsible for the service), officers and a young person about the Youth Service Offer. It recommended that Community Councils be involved in developing the strategy and that officers improve awareness of and access to youth work.
The Committee reviewed progress on school building projects and the year-end schools budget results for 2025/26. The Committee will receive a budget update in November 2026.
The committee appointed Councillor Frank Hemmings as its Chair for the coming year. It agreed its work programme and discussed the council's Welsh in Education Strategic Plan (WESP), a ten-year plan for Welsh-medium education. Members agreed to support a review of the plan's targets, and the Chair is to write to the Education Minister about it.
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The committee agreed its work programme, which moves some items to earlier or later months, and considered the Model Schools Safeguarding Policy for 2025-2026. On safeguarding, it agreed to strengthen school policies with examples of concerning behaviour, to circulate training data to members, and to raise gaps in training and processes with Welsh Government.
The committee agreed its work programme for the year. It also considered the Estyn inspection results and the 2024/25 Key Stage 4 (GCSE-level) results for Wrexham schools, which were limited by Welsh Government data rules. Members agreed to ask for a further report in 12 months and for the Chair to write to Welsh Government about using publicly available data.
The Committee congratulated the Youth Justice Service on its pilot inspection and agreed to review how it communicates with Social Care. It was also reassured by the work of the Wrexham Music Co-operative, and it agreed the work programme for the rest of the year. The minutes record no formal decision on school transport, where Members discussed the withdrawal of concessionary seats.
The committee considered its work programme, the 2024 post-16 destinations of Year 11 pupils, the school budget position, and an information report on vocational GCSEs. It agreed the work programme, asked for a further report on post-16 destinations in 12 months, and agreed that school licensed deficits should be looked at in more detail in a closed meeting. It noted the vocational GCSEs report.
The committee agreed its work programme for the rest of 2025-26, including items on vocational GCSEs, post-16 destinations and the department's budget. It considered attendance and exclusions and asked for a further report and a workshop within 12 months. It also agreed to keep the current Lifelong Learning members on the Groves Task and Finish Group.
Cancelled
The Committee agreed its work programme for the coming months. It also considered progress on the Welsh in Education Strategic Plan and agreed to ask for a further report in 12 months on progress, surplus places and the funding of Trochi.
The Committee agreed its work programme and asked for the Groves Task and Finish Group to be reconvened as soon as possible. It also considered the education estate capital programme and school transport budget pressures, and asked for further reports on both.
The committee considered the impact of budget cuts on schools in 2024/25, including falling school balances and staff leaving through redundancy and redeployment. It also considered a report on staff well-being in schools, and heard from staff at Darland High School. The committee asked for future reports to include teacher-to-pupil ratios, asked for an information report on school closing balances, and asked the Executive Board to fund the three-year licensed deficit in full from Council funds.
Cancelled
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