At their next meeting on 28 October the Scrutiny Programme Committee will be holding a question and answer session with Councillor David Phillips who is the Leader of the Council and also the Cabinet Member for Anti-Poverty. They would welcome your ideas for questions. Councillor David Phillips chairs the […]
Do you have a question for Councillor David Phillips, Leader of the Council?
October 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Providing sustainable services for children and families
October 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Well Being Performance Panel took its quarterly look at performance in Child and Family Services last week. The panel was pleased to see that there were 8 fewer looked after children at the end of August compared to the previous month and that the numbers of looked after children had been on a downward trend since April. […]
Delivering child protection through Signs of Safety
September 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Well Being Performance Panel wanted to find out how Child & Family Services was using the Signs of Safety model to safeguard children identified as “at risk” in Swansea. The Signs of Safety model is a tool intended to help practitioners with risk assessment and safety planning in child protection cases. Its purpose is […]
Do you have a question for the Cabinet Member for Sustainability?
September 23, 2013 by Leave a Comment
At their next meeting on 30 September the Scrutiny Programme Committee will be holding a question and answer session with Councillor Sybil Crouch who is Swansea Council’s Cabinet Member for Sustainability, and they welcome your ideas for questions. The Sustainability portfolio cuts across all services in the Council exploring how […]
Helping to improve the lives of looked after children
September 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
A group of councillors carried out a detailed investigation into how the Council and partners provide services for looked after children. At the end of the investigation the councillors on the Services for Looked After Children Scrutiny Inquiry Panel made 15 recommendations in their report to Cabinet which they hoped would improve the lives and experiences […]
Scrutiny wants to hear from the voluntary sector
August 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So maybe you have been invited to give evidence to scrutiny and you are wondering what it is all about. Maybe you are even a little nervous. Don’t worry! Scrutiny does not want to “scrutinise” you or your organisation. But it does want to benefit from your knowledge, experience and advice. Scrutiny is about councillors […]