It is that time of year again where we run our annual stakeholder survey. The purpose of the survey is to gauge perceptions about the work of overview and scrutiny over the past 12 months. The information gathered will be used to monitor performance and introduce further improvements. It also generates new topics that can […]
What should the Child & Family Services Overview & Scrutiny Board Investigate Next?
April 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday the Board met for the final time in this council year. It took the opportunity to reflect on what has been achieved over the past year. It was the year which saw the removal of the Assembly appointed Intervention Board and ‘serious concerns’ protocol in relation to Child & Family Services. The work of […]
What’s the Best Way to Meet the Needs of Children & Young People?
July 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday the Children, Young People and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board met and looked at the Team Around the Child Project. Hilary Davies project manager, Eirion Davies the TAC co-ordinator and Rachael Webb, Headteacher at Hafod Primary School came along to explain progress made. TAC is an approach to meeting the needs of vulnerable children by getting […]
Environment & Communities – The Big Swansea Challenges
June 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Today the Environment & Communities Overview & Scrutiny Board met to discuss their work plan for the year. This is perhaps the board with the widest brief so it was crucial for them to narrow down their priorities to just a few topics. To help they had these presentations from the Corporate Directors for Environment […]
Our Surveys Said
June 2, 2010 by 1 Comment
We have run a couple of surveys recently to get an idea of what topics people thought should be looked at by the overview and scrutiny boards. The first survey was through Swansea Voices – the Council’s citizen’s panel. We had 85 suggestions back from this. The second survey was an internal survey of staff and councillors and we […]