Issue - meetings

Report of Housing & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Facilitator.

(a)       That the report be noted; and

(b)       That feedback be provided to the Corporate Resources Overview & Scrutiny Committee who are responsible for the overview and monitoring of improvement targets.

The Chief Officer (Education and Youth) introduced a report on the 2013/14 Year End Improvement Plan Monitoring Report relevant to the Committee.  The report covered the period January – March 2014.

The Chief Officer advised that the following Improvement Plan sub-priority reports were attached to the report for the Committee’s consideration:

·         Modernised and High Performance Education

·         Places of Modernised Learning

·         Apprenticeships and Training

The Chairman invited members to raise questions.

Councillor Nancy Matthews expressed praise for the Catch Up scheme and the training provided to schools.

Councillor Marion Bateman referred to the comments on page 64 of the report concerning GwE and highlighted the issues which had been  raised previously around service delivery.  The Chief Officer responded to the comments and reported that arrangements were being made to ensure that all Headteachers had an advisor/System Leader working with them.   He commented that there had been improvement but further work was  to be undertaken for the service to be fully developed with a range of support networking being consistently available across the region.   The Chief Officer suggested that Headteachers be invited to attend a future meeting of the Committee to outline what they felt did and did not work in terms of school to school support.  It was suggested that an invitation be extended to Headteachers to attend a meeting of the Committee during early autumn.

RESOLVED:

 (a)      That the report be noted; and

(b)       That feedback be provided to the Corporate Resources Overview & Scrutiny Committee who are responsible for the overview and monitoring of improvement targets.