The Scrutiny Panels

Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel

The Children and Young People's Services Scrutiny Panel looks at areas such as early years, family support services, learning and school improvement. This may involve looking at the work of the Council in these areas, and also the work of partner agencies and organisations. The panel may offer advice or make recommendations on policy development to the cabinet or council, or look at decisions of the cabinet and, if appropriate, ask them to reconsider. They may also make recommendations to partner agencies.

So far this year the panel has looked at issues including the work of the Corporate Parenting Panel; the consultation on the transformation of services proposals for the Children and Young People Directorate; the school balances control mechanism for 2010/11; and consideration of a presentation by Ravenscliffe High School and Sports College on its vision for the future provision for students with learning difficulties from the school. A Working Party has also been set up to look in depth at the Young People's service.

For the current list of issues we have discussed see scrutiny reviews.

Members of the panel

We usually meet every 3 weeks. To see what we’ll be discussing at our next meeting and when it is view the Calendar.

There are seven members of the scrutiny panel. There are also currently five co-opted members who serve on the Panel, Ms Alison Grant, Mr David Gott, Mrs Shelagh Hirst, Ms Sue McMahon and Mrs Tricia Astwood, MBE.

Mohammad Ilyas	John Ford	Mrs Christine Bampton-Smith
John Hardy	Faisal Shoukat	Howard Blagbrough	Colin Raistrick

Current work programme

Each Scrutiny Panel determines its own Work Programme for the year, and decides what, why and when it would like to consider a specific topic or issue.

Children and Young People Scrutiny Panel Work Plan [PDF file 267KB]|