The
Children’s Services Scrutiny Panel has responsibility to
consider all matters related to Children’s Social Care and
Education. The Panel will be the main
mechanism by which Scrutiny members will scrutinise and monitor the
planning and performance of the Council’s services to
children and young people and the Council’s Corporate
Parenting role, including regular reporting of the improvement plan
and safeguarding partnership. To
promote ‘critical friend’ challenge to the
Council’s Executive specific to Ofsted improvement and to
deliver statutory functions when educational matters are
considered.
Part
of the Panel’s work will be to seek the lived experience of
children and young people about the services they
receive. The Panel will look to ensure
there are sufficient and adequate mechanisms in place to encourage
participation, with the aim to inform service delivery, wider
improvement set by Ofsted framework and practice
standards.