Earlier this week the Health Social Care & Well Being Overview & Scrutiny Board began its review of how the Council and its partners support carers in Swansea. On Tuesday councillors met Shirley Bowen, Director at Swansea Carers’ Centre and Val Walker, Locality Director at the Alzheimer’s Society. The councillors wanted to understand how these two important organisations […]
Annual Performance Challenge – Education
December 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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
November 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
New Report Praises Scrutiny Board
November 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) has produced a report on its annual review and evaluation of performance of Swansea Social Services for 2010/11. The inspector’s report sets out the key strengths and areas for development / improvement for the year 2010/11, under a number of themes. It is very pleasing to read […]
Talking about Leaving Care
October 26, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Today marks the first day of a National Care Leavers Week which runs until 2nd November. The week will see a number of events throughout the UK in order to raise awareness among public and politicians alike about the ongoing needs of care leavers, and levels of support which these young people receive when they […]