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Apologies for absence Additional documents: Minutes: David Watson and Dev Dhillon |
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Declarations of Interest To declare any Personal or Dislosable Pecuniary Interests. Additional documents: Minutes: None |
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Minutes of the meeting held on 5th June 2015. Additional documents: Minutes: Agreed |
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Public Questions Public Questions is an opportunity for people who live, work or study in the county to put a question to a Scrutiny Committee about any issue that has an impact on their local community or the county as a whole.
Members of the public, who have given prior notice, will be invited to put their question in person.
The Cabinet Member and responsible officers will then be invited to respond.
Further information and details on how to register can be found through the following link and by then clicking on ‘Public Questions’.
http://democracy.buckscc.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=788 Additional documents: Minutes: None |
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Chairman's Report For the Chairman of the Committee to provide an update on any scrutiny related activity. Additional documents: Minutes: The Chairman gave her report which included mention of:
· Department for Education and Local Government Association Peer Review Team visits to the council · Trip to Birmingham City Council scrutiny by members of the Select Committee |
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Committee Member Updates For members of the Committee to provide any relevant update. Additional documents: Minutes: Cllr. Stuchbury mentioned time spent with social workers and the visit to Birmingham. Also he mentioned a public event on child sexual exploitation that he attended. |
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Cabinet Member updates Additional documents: |
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Cabinet Member for Education & Skills Additional documents: Minutes: The Cabinet Member for Education & Skills gave his update, which included reference to the following:
· Performance on adult learning · Support for schools and work on the early years and children’s centres · Take up of home to school transport · Budgetary pressures · Audit report on the Buckinghamshire Learning Trust
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Cabinet Member for Children's Services Additional documents: Minutes: The Cabinet Member for Children’s Services gave her update, which included reference to the following:
· Work with Essex and Cambridgeshire County Councils · The senior management team is now permanent · The rate of agency social workers is down. · The Local Government Association will be conducting a peer review
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Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) PDF 517 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Members questioned the Cabinet Member and senior officers on the following:
· Partnership working with the police on child sexual exploitation investigations · The number of contacts going to the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub · Sexual Exploitation Risk Assessment Conference · Attendance at Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board · The responsibility to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation with GPs · What the outreach work commissioned from Barnardos will consist of
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Children's Service Improvement Programme Update Report PDF 501 KB A report to update the committee on progress of implementation of the Children’s Services Improvement Plan (all workstreams). Additional documents: Minutes: Members questioned the Cabinet Member and senior officers on the following:
· The development of the Practitioners’ Board · Early Help Panels · ‘Red’ rated success measures
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Children's Social Care and Learning Business Unit Performance PDF 1 MB Additional documents: |
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Quarter 1 (2015/16) performance data PDF 690 KB To scrutinise the quarter 1 (2015/16) performance data for the Children & Families and Learning, Skills & Prevention portfolios (see pages 15-26). Additional documents:
Minutes: Members questioned the Cabinet Member and senior officers on the following:
· Educational standards at Key Stage 4 · Free school meals · The performance of pupils with special educational needs and disabilities
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Children's Social Care and Learning Business Unit Budget Monitoring PDF 351 KB To scrutinise the quarter 1 (2015/16) budget data for the Children’s Services and Education & Skills portfolios (see page 10). Additional documents: Minutes: Members questioned the Cabinet Member and senior officers on the following:
· Strategies to manage the demand on children’s services · Proposals to raise foster carer allowances · Potential income streams from the Educational Psychology Service
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Narrowing the Gap Inquiry Progress Update (part 2 - update on BCC recommendations) PDF 363 KB For the Committee to receive an update and to ask questions on the implementation of the Narrowing the Gap Select Committee Inquiry agreed recommendations. Additional documents: Minutes: Members agreed to consider the update in more detail outside of the meeting.
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Children's Social Care & Learning Select Committee Work Programme PDF 136 KB To discuss and agree the work programme.
The Ofsted report on the Buckingham Children’s Centre (July 2015) is at: http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/20485 Additional documents: Minutes: Members considered the work programme.
The committee agreed to add Children's Centres to its work programme.
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Date of Next Meeting To note the next meeting of the Children’s Social Care & Learning Select Committee on 3rd November 2015. Additional documents: Minutes: 3rd November 2015 |