There are now 493 looked after children in the care of the authority and this number has been reducing steadily for the last 6 months. Since February there has been a reduction of 28 looked after children and the teams are clearly working hard to get these good results. The child and family services scrutiny […]
Call for evidence: Tackling Poverty Inquiry
August 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
A new scrutiny inquiry has started which is looking at ways in which the Council’s Tackling Poverty Strategy can be improved. Over the next few months the Panel will be looking into many aspects of the work of tackling poverty and will look to answer the question ‘How can the Council’s Tackling Poverty Strategy be improved?’ […]
Seven reasons to love your scrutiny annual report
August 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Last week the Scrutiny Annual Report was reported to Swansea’s Council Meeting. You can download it here. OK, it might not be the most exciting document ever produced but, for anyone involved in scrutiny, it really is important and, as many Councils produce them, they might as well be a worthwhile exercise. So I thought […]
Ensuring that care leavers access education, training and employment
July 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
NEETs, this is the acronym used to describe a young person who is “not in education, employment of training”. When the Child & Family Services Scrutiny Panel met last week to look at the end of year performance monitoring report for Child & Family Services it saw that over half of formerly looked after children were not in […]
Do you have a question for Cabinet Members?
June 21, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Council’s Scrutiny Programme Committee holds the Council’s Cabinet to account and during the course of the year arranges Q & A sessions with each Cabinet Member. Each Q & A session will explore the work Cabinet Members have done in their role, looking at priorities, actions, achievements and impact. Is […]
Transforming Adult Services
June 2, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Back in October 2014 a scrutiny panel was set up to look at the changes that were taking place in adult services to have the kind of services that were needed to meet the demands of an aging population, smaller budgets and the Social Services and Well Being Act. Over the course of 18 months […]