There is an abundance of good practice highlighted by Estyn in relation to schools in Swansea and the Schools Scrutiny Performance Panel are planning to celebrate this at a good practice event on the 11 February.  The panel will speak to two schools who responded to the ‘call for good practice’ Trallwn Primary and Craigfelin […]

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 […]

The Building Sustainable Communities scrutiny panel will next meet on the 14 January where they will plan their inquiry which will focus more specifically on how the council can best support residents to run some services in their own communities. In order to maintain important local services the council will need to be a radical in looking […]

The Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel have two meeting meetings scheduled over January and February 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: 21 January at 5pm (Committee Room 3b in the Guildhall) – the panel will be looking at: Annual Education Performance data 2014/15 which will […]

The CSSIW has just told us that our scrutiny of child & family services and adult services is doing all right, well, its more than all right, we have “effective and well managed” scrutiny arrangements! The report said that our work programmes are clear, both panels’ scrutiny of performance is robust and challenging, looked after children are […]