Councillors will, on the 6 July, meet to follow up on the impact of their scrutiny inquiry into the Corporate Culture amongst staff within the Council.  An inquiry was completed in June 2015 with a set of recommendations being agreed by the Councils Cabinet in October 2015.  Some of the recommendations to Cabinet included, for example: […]

Councillors from the Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel met with the Headteacher and a Governor from Cefn Hengoed Community school to discuss their recent Estyn Inspection outcome and the school’s improvement journey.  On the 9 June the panel spoke to the Challenge Advisor, then the Headteacher and a Governor from the school. The Panel chose to speak to the […]

The schools Performance Scrutiny Panel recently met to discuss and agree their work programme for the coming year. Prior to this meeting the Panel contacted Headteachers, fellow Councillors, the public and council officers asking ‘what they think are the key topics in education at the moment’ and ‘what they believe the panel should be concentrating […]

Councillors met with 15 representatives from different Community Centres across Swansea on the 18 May in order to gain their views and knowledge about running a community asset.  Councillors from the Building Sustainable Communities Scrutiny Panel are carrying out an inquiry into Community Action including how we can assist communities to take on services and […]

The Education Through Regional Working (ERW) Scrutiny Councillor Group met on the 11 March 2016 and one of the issues they discussed was how each local authority carries out its scrutiny of individual schools.  It proved that there are a variety of ways of doing schools scrutiny across the ERW region but all Councillors agreed that the […]

Councillors from the Schools Scrutiny Performance Panel met with some pupils and the Headteacher from Craigfelen Primary School on 14 April.  The Councillors were very impressed with the good practice highlighted by the school including particularly… Making ideas a reality, making dreams come true…creation of a wide range of pupil voice groups to include pupils […]