There is considerable international evidence from a wide spectrum of leading academics and practitioners that investment in the Early Years will break the cycle of disadvantage by changing children’s life chances so that they are better able to make a positive contribution to society and at the same time reduce the need for very costly […]

Swansea Councils education scrutiny body, the Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel, has the role of providing ongoing challenge to schools performance in order to ensure that pupils in Swansea are receiving a high quality education and that it is meeting its objectives to improve schools standards and pupil attainment. The up-coming meetings for this Panel are: 16 November at 4.00pm […]

The Education Through Regional Working (ERW) Scrutiny Councillor Group met on the 27 September 2016 and one of the issues they discussed was how each local authority scrutiny body challenges their schools and education department when looking at pupil deprivation grant spend on vulnerable learners. The Group discussed a framework of ‘what works’ including looking at, for […]

A new scrutiny panel is currently being set up that will look at children’s readiness for school in Swansea.  It will meet for the first time on the 11 October.  The issue was highlighted by Councillors as an important topic for review at the Scrutiny Work Planning Conference in May.   Some of the reasons Councillors will look […]

The Council is facing significant budget cuts which mean that we need to take a radical look at the way things are done.  This includes what services and assets we continue to manage and which we are unable to support.  The Council’s Sustainable Swansea – Fit for the Future Strategy is about transforming Council services, […]