Archives for October 2016

So what is happening in education scrutiny in Swansea?

Swansea Councils education scrutiny body, the Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel, has the role of providing ongoing challenge to schools performance in order to ensure that pupils in Swansea are receiving a high quality education and that it is meeting its objectives to improve schools standards and pupil attainment. The up-coming meetings for this Panel are: 16 November at 4.00pm […]

Delivering for vulnerable learners? 10 questions to ask

The Education Through Regional Working (ERW) Scrutiny Councillor Group met on the 27 September 2016 and one of the issues they discussed was how each local authority scrutiny body challenges their schools and education department when looking at pupil deprivation grant spend on vulnerable learners. The Group discussed a framework of ‘what works’ including looking at, for […]