Building Sustainable Communities through community action

Scrutiny Councillors are looking at building sustainable communities through developing community action.  Councillors are focusing specifically on how the council can best support residents to run some services in their own communities. Councillors have chosen to look at this subject because: In order to maintain important local services the council will need to be a radical […]

Planning for the next year in Education Scrutiny

  What they think the Council’s Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel should look at over the coming year? What issues they believe are most important in education at the moment? Whether there areas of education that Councillors could look at that  would help make a difference and add value? The Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel will at their meeting on 11 […]

Steps forward made in inward investment across the Swansea Bay City Region

Councillors, at a scrutiny meeting on the 3 March, were pleased to hear that major steps forward had been made in relation to inward investment in the Swansea Bay City Region and that the outstanding recommendations made by the Panel to Cabinet last year had been put in place. The Panel felt that the creation of […]

What has been the impact of inward investment scrutiny inquiry?

The Inward Investment Scrutiny Inquiry Panel will meet again on 3 March to look the outstanding recommendations and at how their report has impacted on inward investment into Swansea and the Swansea Bay City Region. The Panel were told at a meeting in July 2015 that their report had provided focus for how Swansea and the […]

Whats next in Schools Performance?

The Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel have three meeting scheduled over coming months  and you are welcome to come along and listen to the discussion and/or look at the papers online when they are published.  These include: 23 February at 5pm (Committee Room 1 in the Civic Centre) – the panel will be looking at West Glamorgan Music Service consultation on proposed […]

Building Sustainable Communities – Give us your views

A new scrutiny inquiry panel has started which is looking at building sustainable communities through developing community action. The Panel is focused specifically on how the council can best support residents to run some services in their own communities. Councillors have chosen to look at this subject because: In order to maintain important local services the council will […]