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Cabinet portfolio for Children's Services
The Children's Services cabinet portfolio is outlined below. We have also highlighted the lead Scrutiny Committee responsible for each function.
Education, Training and Culture Scrutiny Committee:
Raising attainment to include school improvement issues such as:
- Education Development Plan - progress
- Excellence in Cities - progress
- Key stage and GCSE results
- Transformational Strategy strands - progres
- e-learning
- Issues concerning governors
- Improving schools as learning environments including health, safety and security (within schools) and building maintenance issues
Inclusion to include:
- Attendance issues
- Exclusion issues
- Special Educational Needs including child guidance, sensory impaired service
- Employment of children and young persons
- Student support services including grants awarded
- Provision for looked after children
- Provision for children requiring additional support (pregnant teenagers, young parents, children with drug problems)
Lifelong Learning to include:
- Early years (provision of care and early years education, Children's Information Service, Portage service and Parent Partnership)
- Provision of learning opportunities for adults
- Provision for learners post-16
Strategic issues to include:
- Recruitment and Retention issues and strategies
- Education and Lifelong Learning Strategic Plan
- School Place Planning including admissions
- Asset Management issues
- Progress against Ofsted Action Plan
Community Safety and Social Inclusion Scrutiny Committee:
- Information, Sharing and Assessement Programme
