Do you have a question for Councillor Christine Richards, Deputy Leader of the Council & Cabinet Member for Services for Children & Young People?

The Deputy Leader of the Council & Cabinet Member for Services for Children & Young People, Councillor Christine Richards, will be appearing before the Scrutiny Programme Committee on 22 December for a question and answer session. The committee welcome your ideas for questions.

Cllr. Christine Richards

Councillor Richards’ portfolio of Services for Children & Young People includes the following areas of responsibility:

•  Child & Family Services
• Play
• Youth Services & Promoting Youth Inclusion
• Early Intervention / Prevention
• Youth Offending Service
• Youth Citizenship
• Opportunities for Young People
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) Champion
• NEETS (Link with Education)
• Regional Adoption Service
• Children & Young People Board
• Continuum of Care
• Safe Looked After Children Reduction Strategy
• Flying Start
• Lead Elements of Sustainable Swansea

The committee will explore the work she has done in this role, looking at priorities, actions, achievements and impact.

Is there anything that you think the committee should ask her? Any suggestions made before 22 December will be looked at by the committee in developing its questioning strategy and the key ones will be put to Councillor Richards.

Let us have your ideas by adding a comment to this post, by email to scrutiny@swansea.gov.uk or tweet us at @swanseascrutiny.

The committee meeting will take place on Monday 22 December at 4.30 pm in Committee Room 1 in the Civic Centre, Swansea and the public are welcome to attend.

A summary of each session, including public questions that are asked, and views of the committee are included in a letter to the relevant cabinet member. Both these letters and responses from Cabinet Members are published in future Scrutiny Programme Committee agendas.

This is part of a series of Cabinet Member Question Sessions that will take place over the course of the year.  The committee meets every 4 weeks.

Schedule for future sessions:

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