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 […]
Top Performing Schools
November 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Board were pleased to invite Cwmglas Primary School Headteacher and Chair of Governors for a question and answer session based on their Estyn Inspection and pupil outcomes to their meeting on 7th November 2011. The school has been identified as top performing and Councillors wanted to find out the reasons for this. They were especially pleased […]
New Report Praises Scrutiny Board
November 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has produced a report on its annual review and evaluation of performance of Swansea Social Services for 2010/11. The inspector’s report sets out the key strengths and areas for development / improvement for the year 2010/11, under a number of themes. It is very pleasing to read […]
Swansea City Centre – We want your views
October 17, 2011 by 3 Comments
Since the 2008 recession town centres around the UK have been hit with the hardest trading conditions for generations. There have been a number of high profile retailers reporting extreme financial pressures as well as the negative impact on small independent businesses. Swansea City Centre is no different with decreasing levels of footfall over the […]
European Local Democracy Week
October 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This post is us doing our bit for European Local Democracy Week which starts today. We wanted to mark it because we think that local government scrutiny makes an important contribution to local democracy. First and foremost scrutiny can make a real difference to people by working to improve policies and services. To show this we will […]