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: 1 September at 4.00pm […]
Festival sees more than 40 schools across south west Wales Sharing Excellence
July 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
More than 40 schools from across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Neath Port Talbot, Pembrokeshire, Powys and Swansea shared their success stories at ERW’s (Education Through Regional Working) conference. The ‘Festival of Sharing Excellence’ took place on Thursday, July 7 at the Brangwyn Hall in Swansea.The aim of the event was to share the most effective strategies and practice […]
So how is education through regional working performing for Swansea?
July 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The Schools Scrutiny Performance Panel will on the 14 July to discuss the Education Through Regional Working (ERW) business plan for 2016-2019 with the Chief Executive of the regional body. The Business Plan outlines the region, of which Swansea is part, vision for improvement which is,,, “consistently high performing school network across the region with every […]
What was the impact of the scrutiny inquiry into corporate culture?
June 30, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Councillors will, on the 6 July, meet to follow up on the impact of their scrutiny inquiry into the Corporate Culture amongst staff within the Council. An inquiry was completed in June 2015 with a set of recommendations being agreed by the Councils Cabinet in October 2015. Some of the recommendations to Cabinet included, for example: […]
Excellent practice highlighted at Swansea secondary school
June 17, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Councillors from the Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel met with the Headteacher and a Governor from Cefn Hengoed Community school to discuss their recent Estyn Inspection outcome and the school’s improvement journey. On the 9 June the panel spoke to the Challenge Advisor, then the Headteacher and a Governor from the school. The Panel chose to speak to the […]
What education issues will Scrutiny Councillors look at this year?
May 19, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The schools Performance Scrutiny Panel recently met to discuss and agree their work programme for the coming year. Prior to this meeting the Panel contacted Headteachers, fellow Councillors, the public and council officers asking ‘what they think are the key topics in education at the moment’ and ‘what they believe the panel should be concentrating […]