Archives for August 2019

Swansea Council’s education scrutiny body, the Education 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. They recently met to discuss their work programme for […]

At their meeting on 17th July the Development and Regeneration Performance Panel looked at the Response and Action Plan to the Wales Audit Office Report – ‘Local Government Services to Rural Communities’. Swansea is a semi-rural authority with 60% of the land rural. However the classification of wards as rural or urban can be complex […]

Councillors from the Education Scrutiny Performance Panel visited Dylan Thomas Community Comprehensive School in July and met with the Headteacher, Chair of Governors and other staff at the school. Councillors chose to speak to this school because they had heard about the good practice the school provides in relation to the wellbeing of pupils, with […]

In July the Cabinet Member for Delivery responded to the Natural Environment Scrutiny Inquiry. The feedback was very positive and 18 out of the 20 recommendations were approved with the remaining two only being rejected on financial grounds. Should the finances become available the remaining two recommendations will also be implemented. With the hard work […]