The Councils Cabinet at its meeting on the 26 August discussed the scrutiny report and recommendations resulting from the recent inquiry into inward investment in the region. The Inquiry found that Swansea has many assets that could potentially encourage investment to the area like, for example, superfast Broadband, good transport links, relatively low property and rental […]
What can we do to increase inward investment?
August 4, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The Inward Investment Scrutiny Inquiry found that Swansea has many assets that could potentially encourage investment to the area like, for example, superfast Broadband, good transport links, relatively low property and rental costs, a large ready loyal labour force and facilities for training, research and development through our Universities and colleges locally. However, it highlighted that […]
So, what is Elective Home Education?
July 29, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Elective Home Education, also known as Home Schooling, is where parents/carers decide to provide home based education for their children instead of sending them to school. Elective home education is an aspect of parental choice. This is different to Home Tuition which is where the local authority provides education for children who cannot attend school […]
Scrutiny looks at how schools deal with staff competency issues
July 21, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The Schools Performance Panel at their meeting on the 3 July looked at how the authority tackles the issue of poor performing teachers and the recruitment of senior staff in schools. The Chief Education Officer and Head of Human Resources attended the meeting to discuss a number of specific issues, particularly around the amount and accuracy […]
Education Inclusion Scrutiny Inquiry Update
July 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Councillors previously planned to carry out an inquiry into Education Inclusion, particularly education other than at school, which was due to start in April. This was highlighted as a concern by the recommendation arising from the recent local authority education services for children and young people Estyn Inspection which stated that we need to ‘improve […]
Scrutiny looks at how schools deal with staff competency issues
July 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The Schools Performance Scrutiny Panel, at their meeting today will look at how the Council advises and supports schools when dealing with poorly performing teachers and also when recruiting senior staff into schools. This is one of the issues that was highlighted for further work by the Panel when they spoke to schools over the […]