The Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board met yesterday. The councillors dealt with two main topics – progress against the implementation of the Health Social Care & Well Being Strategy and how the Council supports carers. The Cabinet Member for Social Services, Councillor Nick Tregoning and Sharon Miller, Dr Nina Williams […]
Talking about Leaving Care
October 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Today marks the first day of a National Care Leavers Week which runs until 2nd November. The week will see a number of events throughout the UK in order to raise awareness among public and politicians alike about the ongoing needs of care leavers, and levels of support which these young people receive when they […]
Board Members out and about
October 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Members of the Environment & Communities Overview & Scrutiny Board have been out and about this week in Fforestfach and Morfa gathering shoppers’ views. The Board are carrying out an in-depth review into the City Centre and talking to people about whether they prefer out of town shopping to the City Centre and the reasons […]
Effective Questioning for Scrutiny: A Checklist
October 20, 2011 by 3 Comments
Effective questioning is at the heart of effective scrutiny. For this reason it has been identified as one of the things that we want to develop and improve over the next 12 months. As a starting point we have tried to capture all of the things that the overview and scrutiny boards and committees in Swansea already do well, as […]