The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services scrutiny inquiry panel is meeting on 16 February to talk to representatives from the Council’s education department and the cabinet members for Education and Children & Young People. The meeting will begin at 9.30am and will be held in the Council Chamber in the Guildhall. The aim of the […]
More scrutiny please!
January 17, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Councillors on the Well Being Scrutiny Performance Panel have been quite vocal at recent meetings about their ability to scrutinise adult services and child & family services in just one meeting a month. Worried that they were not devoting enough time to the important area of adult services, they agreed to hold fortnightly meetings and […]
Making sure our care leavers get the best support
November 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The Well Being Performance Panel spent some time this week following up the “Support for Care Leavers” inquiry which was completed in March 2012. This follow up stage is a really important part of the scrutiny process because it enables councillors to make sure that the recommendations that were accepted by the Cabinet Member have been put into […]
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 […]