Today the Children, Young People and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board met to consider their work plan for the year. To provide the context for this they had a highly informative presentation which was given jointly by Richard Parry, the Corporate Director (Education), Cllr Mary Jones, Lead Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, and Cllr […]
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 […]
Introducing the r-Board
May 28, 2010 by 2 Comments
To coincide with the launch of the i-pad today I’d like to reveal our own piece of state of the art technology: the r-Board. Let me tell you about this very important piece of kit. The r-Board helps us keep track of the reviews that the overview & scrutiny boards are working on. It goes like this: […]
Workplan Time for the Government and Us
May 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Today the government has announced the bills it intends to bring to parliament in the Queen’s Speech. This list of 22 bills is in effect the government’s workplan for the next parliamentary session. Over the next three or four weeks all of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Boards will also be meeting to decide what their […]