Child Poverty and Educational Attainment Update

The Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board completed a review looking at child poverty and its links with educational attainment in July 2010 and have received regular updates on progress since then.  The Board at its meeting on the 23rd January will look at progress to date which will include asking questions on […]

Hafod Primary School – Partnership Working in Practice

Councillors from the Partnership Overview and Scrutiny Committee visited Hafod Primary School earlier this week. The purpose of the visit was to follow up their scrutiny of Swansea Local Service Board. Specifically the idea was to test some of the things they had been told about the Local Service Board’s Prevention and Early Intervention Programme by […]

Update on Literacy Review

The Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny completed a review of literacy across schools in swansea last year and have,  for their meeting on 23rd January, asked for an update on the progress made in relation to the recommendations that were agreed by Cabinet on  7th April 2011. The Board will be keen to […]

Annual Performance Challenge – Education

At the Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting on Monday (5th Dec) Councillor looked at the performance data from across schools in Swansea, concentrating on educational attainment, school exclusions, attendance and employment training.  Councillors were pleased to find:  the overall trend for level 2 threshold indicator and core subject indicator is upward. that progress with […]

Top Performing Schools

The Board were pleased to invite Cwmglas Primary School Headteacher and Chair of Governors for a question and answer session based on their Estyn Inspection and pupil outcomes to their meeting on 7th November 2011.  The school has been identified as top performing and Councillors wanted to find out the reasons for this.  They were especially pleased […]

Key Initiatives Supporting Children and Young People in Swansea

At a Board on the 12th September the Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board looked at five short progress updates on important key initiatives that are helping to improve the lives of Children and Young People across Swansea.  Councillors looked at: Restorative Practice Schools are continuing to embed restorative approaches in schools and services.  […]