The Health Social Care and Well Being Overview and Scrutiny Board today (7th Feb) looked at the Annual Report of the Swansea Safeguarding Adults Board including reviewing the action plan and progress made. What Is A Vulnerable Adult? – Vulnerable adults are individuals over 18 who are or may be in need of community care […]
Annual Performance Challenge – Education
December 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
At the Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting on Monday (5th Dec) Councillor looked at the performance data from across schools in Swansea, concentrating on educational attainment, school exclusions, attendance and employment training. Councillors were pleased to find: the overall trend for level 2 threshold indicator and core subject indicator is upward. that progress with […]
Looking Back, Looking Forward
October 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Last week, to mark European Local Democracy Week, we were tweeting the Overview and Scrutiny Annual Report for 2011/12. If you want to see the full report you can find it here. If you are not a tweeter then don’t worry – all it boils down to is that we have summarised the annual report in to ten short statements […]
Our Year in Numbers
August 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
OK, so it might not be the most exciting thing you have ever read but I was working on the stats for our Annual Report 2010-11 and thought I might as well share them. Whilst we don’t want to go overboard on this, it is important to be able to show the level of activity […]
We Do Research You Know
August 17, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Research is an important part of what scrutiny does and, as a team, it is a core part of our role. At a time when research resources within local councils are under pressure, research is one of the ways in which a scrutiny function can add important value. If the right topics are chosen scrutiny can […]